thanks for the quick replies. i did not realize that i was not being patient enough when trying to get to the BASH prompt. well it looks like i did delete something because i get this error:

/empeg/var/database': No such file or directory

or

rm: cannot remove `/drive0/var/database': No such file or directory

excuse my lack of technical literacy . . . but how do i restore/create the var directory since it appears i deleted it?