Hi Tony.

Sounds like you pressed CTRL-S on the console, which equals to Scroll-Lock. Undo that lock with CTRL-Q.
You probably need to do an fsck anyway, if you reboot the machine while having the partitions r/w mounted. Just quit the player after reboot and do an "fsck /dev/hda5; fsck /dev/hda4; fsck /dev/hdc4" (you have two drives, don't you? If not just omit the hdc4 part). But I think you knew how to do an fsck manually, right?

cu,
sven

proud MkII owner (12GB blue/green/smoked, #080000113)