HD Install :: starting dsl (please help)



HI, I am new to linux.  I recently installed it to a toshiba tecra laptop that had windows xp (but ran very slowly). Originally I used smart boot manager (http://btmgr.webframe.org/) to boot from a cd, since my laptop does not boot from the cd drive on its own (not even an option in bios).  I then installed dsl to the hard drive. I restarted it worked fine, allright, I enabled apt and got icewm, then tried deleting it.
That was the problem, I'm an idiot and I think I deleted an important file for starting up the computer.

Here is the problem:
 When I start the computer grub loads and i start DSL.  Everything goes fine, it autoconfigs devices and even starts to load the desktop, but then it stops loading and says this:
"/home/dsl/.xinitrc: line 7: /opt/bin/iecewm-session: No such file or directory"
"waiting for X server to shut down"
"dsl ~$ ->"

So it doesn't successfully start up.  I would like to get this working, what can I do.  Is there a way to edit the .xinitrc so that it doesnt try starting up icewm?  I have nothing else to work with on this computer, it only has dsl, but I was hoping it was still fixable because it gives me the command promt thing (dsl ~$ ->).  So yeah, I was hoping I could just fix the .xinitrc or boot from the cd somehow using grub, or cd /cdrom or something???
I know nothing about linux or computers (hence the username)  and I would really appreciate help.  Thanks!
You can type " nano /home/dsl/.xinitrc " to edit it.
or
type " cp /etc/skel/,xinitrc /home/dsl/.xinitrc " to put a copy of the original back.
Hey thanks!  That worked well!  now it works.
One more problem, prolly an easy fix??
  When dls loads the desktop icons load, then disappear right away.  When I click on Desktop>full enhanced desktop, the images appear again, but then dissappear right away.  How can I fix it so they stay up??
      Thanks so much for your help so far!!
Try running the command xtdesk from aterm and see if you receive any error messages.  It's most likely a *.lnk file in /home/dsl/.xtdesktop that is pointing to a nonexistent or unreadable image file.  Another possibility is that you were in a directory other than /home/dsl when you started the X server...some of the *.lnk files may use a relative path to their images. You can usually tell when you open terminal from the menu, it should have "~" as the current directory
ok.........
"can't access file '.xtdesktop/xterm.gif' "

now what, do I just delete the file or what?
thanks a ton!!
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