Xfce4 no longer starts from kdm [SOLVED]

I have somehow borked my Xfce4 setup. I've switched back and forth a few times between Xfce4 in /extra and Xfce4-svn. Somewhere I've done something so that I can no longer start Xfce4 from kdm. Instead, I have to open a terminal and manually do "startxfce4".
When I try to launch xfce4 from kdm, I get this segfault message:
xfce4-session[8818]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f92e95008a2
sp 00007ffff51bcc80 error 4 in libc-2.9.so[7f92e9461000+14a000]
I've done all kinds of manipulations of my ~/.config/xfce4 and ~/.config/xfce4-session files, including toying with permissions and even zapping them altogether.
I've also uninstalled xfce4 entirely, then reinstalled.
And I've uninstalled xfce4-svn entirely, then reinstalled.
I've reinstalled glibc, thinking that there might be a conflict, and I rebuilt xfce4-session from abs. No go.
My other DE (KDE4) and wm (fluxbox) start fine from kdm.
FWIW, this is all that's in my ~/.xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
#~/.xinitrc
exec startxfce4
Here's my ~/.xsession:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xsession
# Executed by xdm/gdm/kdm at login
/bin/bash --login -i ~/.xinitrc
What am I missing?
Last edited by dhave (2009-01-01 15:25:18)

Solved, finally.
Following suggestions from Allan (mod), I deleted these files, then restarted:
~/.config/xfce4
~/.config/xfce4-session
~/.cache/xfce4
Thanks!
right again. When I followed Allan's suggestion, I didn't simultaneously delete . I had deleted them before, but to get a really fresh start, I needed to delete all of them at once before restarting.

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