This computer hates me!

Turned on the computer this morning and logged on as bruce
Your session only lasted 10 seconds. ...
[details]
ScreenSaver: couldn't get password of "bruce"
ScreenSaver: couldn't get password of "root"
_IceTransSocketONIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListener: server allready running
xfce5-session: Unable to establish ICE Kisteners: cannot establish any listening sockets
returns to logon screen where cleo sucessfully logs in.
During my reinstalls, it could not import bruce but could create/import cleo. I would delete/rename bruce and create a new one in vasm.
History:
Last winter, VL6 installed beutiflly found my mouse wheel and had good white leters on black background in terminal, but I had a terrible time trying to connect to/from other computers on my LAN. Then last spring, I fell into the same trap that others did by allowing the auto update to run. I was unable to resolve the problem following the solutions given for others. Then someone mentioned they were moving the xfce4 update back to testing and the topic died.
Now, when I reinstall, terminal has mutli-colored text, typing isn't displayed until Enter key pressed, and dual right borders (another thread mentioned menu=>run xterm yields a good terminal with black on white); despite all attempts, I can't get the mouse wheel to work; and the above issue. The beauty of this, all computers on the LAN can read/write to each other!
I have made several reinstalls over the summer with same results.