X11 / xterm won't even launch anymore

I was using X11 with the minor glitches (i.e. cannot move x11 windows to secondary display). For some reason, x11 stopped working altogether today. I go to /Applications/Utilities/X11 and nothing happens.
I checked /var/log/system.log and it has the following errors:
Nov 5 22:04:20 initech [0x0-0x29029].org.x.X11_launcher[318]: command=/usr/X11/bin/xterm
Nov 5 22:04:20 initech com.apple.launchd[113] ([0x0-0x29029].org.x.X11_launcher[318]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 319 PPID 1 login
Nov 5 22:04:20 initech login[319]: USER_PROCESS: 319 tty??
Nov 5 22:04:20 initech login[319]: DEAD_PROCESS: 319 tty??
Nov 5 22:04:20 initech [0x0-0x29029].org.x.X11_launcher[0]: -xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
Nov 5 22:04:20 initech [0x0-0x29029].org.x.X11_launcher[0]: -xterm: DISPLAY is not set
Nov 5 22:04:20 initech [0x0-0x29029].org.x.X11_launcher[0]: Last login: Mon Nov 5 21:56:48 on ttys000
Coincidentally, X11 stopped working after I ran System Update to install the Quicktime and iTunes updates today.
Anyone else start having this problem?

I was checking the boards and found someone who said their org.x.X11.plist file was not being installed after they had deinstalled 10.5 X11, installed 10.4 X11, and went back to 10.5 X11.
I had did that earlier and wasn't having problems, but I went ahead and pulled that file from another 10.5 computer and copied that over to the affected Macbook.
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