Debian Sarge - no X unless root

[Jim Seymour <bluejay@speedfactory.net>]

This is my first experience with Debian.  The install seemed to go okay 
however the only way I can log into X is by session "Debian" and logging in 
as root.  As a user the error messages are as follows:

User>KDE session message:
Could not read network connection list.
/home/jim/.DCOPserver_localhost_0 (file does not exist)

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!

User>Debian session message:

/etc/X11/Xsession: line 7: xrdb: command not found

User>Gnome session message:

same as above

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Jim Seymour