2 Gutsy problems: 64 bit

[Todd]

Hi,

Have been helping my friend install Gutsy on his AMD 64 bit system. Have 
it up and running okay except for two problems:

1. He can't type anything into the terminal. Can copy and paste a 
command to the terminal but when it asks for his password the terminal 
will not accept any keyboard strokes.

2. Can't seem to download any of the Firefox extensions eg Adblock Plus. 
I would expect the Firefox extensions to work under a 64 bit system but 
I am not sure as I have always had a 32 bit configuration.

One thing I did notice after his install was that Nautilus was not 
installed which did not allow him to access his Home directory. I now 
have that up and running and not sure if this has anything to do re the 
above terminal problem.

Thanks
Todd