Strange KDE2 Language Problem after recent update, help pls.

[Todd Suess <tsuess@inspace.net>]

Greetings,

I have been running KDE2 and Woody for some time now with no problems, however
after a recent update, several things happened.  First of all, my console 
keymap got changed
to a non us one, so I could not login.  Once I figured out what was 
happening, I determined how
my keyboard was mapped, so I could login as root and use kbdconfig to fix 
the problem.  Then
I ran X-windows.  KDE2 comes up fine, but all the dialogs, etc are in 
gibberish, I guess it could
be a language like chinese, etc, but whatever it is, I can't read it.  On 
desktop one, the icons names
are also missing completely, but on desktops 2-4 the icon names are there, 
in english, but the rest
of the dialogs are in gibberish.  Since I can't run the KDE2 config program 
inside KDE (it runs, can't
read it tho) How can I fix this problem from console mode??

Any suggestions would be most helpful.

Regards,

Todd