U.S.: Spare my computer from me!

This past weekend, I was working on a MySQL database for a PHP-driven web page. Well, when I lost contact with the database, I began fiddling with my 'puter at the UNIX command line, having logged in as 'root.' Bad idea. I managed to delete the vital contents of a directory and cannot mount any disk images or open the Terminal program to solve my database problems at the command line. Happily, my computer is a Mac. So, it's working. I dare not shut it down cuz who knows what wonderful things will happen if I do. Meantime, I'm awaiting another copy of Panther (OS 10.3) to restore the system software.

If my iBook could speak, the things it would tell me!