X11 Wont Open

X11 was opening and it was taking too long to open so I manually forced it to quit. Ever since, it has not been able to open. From the Applications/Utilities folder I double-click on the X11 app and it starts to open, then crashes.
I looked in the error console (Applications/Utilities/Console) and it reported:
XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1440x900 @ (0,0)
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
Quitting XDarwin...
xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
after each time I tried opening X11.
I tried uninstalling X11 (drag into trash and empty) and then reinstalling it from the Tiger DVD but still the same symptom.
Any help would be appreciated.

Have you checked out [http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz>? There are unofficial updates to X11/Xquartz available there that may help. Also, deleting X11 in Utilities won't fully remove it, you also need to remove the hidden folder /usr/X11, though this really shouldn't be done except perhaps as a last resort before reinstalling the OS. Also, try to remove any X11 plist files in ~/Library/Preferences. I would try this first, then try the updates available at macosforge, and see if this fixes the problem. And perhaps the 10.5.2 update would help as well, though I guess you are still running 10.4, so that's not an option.
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