Mac OS X Snow Leopard hangs after login

Mac OS X Snow Leopard hangs after login After restoring from backup following filesystem corruption my user account hangs after login (After entering my password the login window disappears and all I get is the background and a mouse pointer, no spinning wheel of death etc ..) I can login as a different user and then logout and login as my main account (sometimes!) but this is not consistant.
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If it works in safe mode, you should check the things that get disabled in safe mode. Since this problem only occurs in the login session, the prime suspects are probably login items (check in System Preferences -> Accounts -> your account -> Login Items tab), LaunchAgents (check both /Library/LaunchAgents at the root of the boot drive, and ~/Library/LaunchAgents in your home folder; note that items in /System/Library/LaunchAgents are not disabled in safe mode, so aren't suspects), and fonts (again, check both /Library/Fonts and ~/Library/Fonts). Experiment with disabling the various items to narrow down which one's causing the problem.