Thanks very much for your reply and help. I do wonder why no one else came up with any advice?
The good news is, this mind racking problem has been rectified. I will be the first to admit I am not very skilled at the inner workings of my N800, but by dumb luck I discovered that all I really had to do was go into the Garnet settings and hit the reformat storage button to get back the basic gvm apps .
Who knew?? But this crashing incident does beg another question...can you tell me how I can back up my garnet applications so I will not lose all of my information that I have there (ie in memos, etc.)
I do not know anything about using xterm and midnight commander..is there another way to back up??