thanks for the reply... but whatever I did... it totally screwed things up...
I might have deleted /var/spool or some other spool in another directory... when i tried to make a symbolic link...
anyways... when I rebooted... the bloody system was stuck on an hourglass...
I had no choice but to run a reinstall... but this time i'm going to give RedHat 6.2 a try.
Thanks for your suggestion... next time I'm gonna take things slowly...