tde update disaster, helllppppp!!!!!!

Greetings all; I updated tde about 2 hours ago, 300+ files. Its totally fscked, defaulting to xfce4 and nothing but a tiny terminal works. But that terminal is enough to get more started. Can't find kmail from the xfce4 menu but kmail is what it reports it cannot find so $path is screwed. I've gone single and tried to relink default-display back to /opt/trinity/bin/tdm, failed. Tried to reset it in /etc/default, failed. Tried just about everthiing including re-installing the trinty-base & twm/tdm stuffs. no luck I finally found /opt/trinity/bin/kmail and have it running but no clue if I can send this. How in tuncket do I restore my default desktop to tde now??? I asccidently touched the folder icon, it opened a huge requester asnd froze everthing but gkrellm which I had found and started so I could see if the robots were DDOSing me, so I had to re-start it with the front panel reset button. I likely have the whole thing to fix as right now its cycleing back and forth as its starting x with a tde login but clears that screen and eventually starts xfce4. And here come the damned bots, so I gotta get iptables running. Thanks for any help. debian stretch on amd64 if that helps. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>