GDM issues

[thephotoman]

It seems that I'm having a problem with GDM.  It keeps crashing the X 
servers in Warty.  I cannot use the GDM from Hoary, as it depends on 
Gnome 2.9, which is not a comfortable desktop (perhaps because it's an 
experimental release--anyway, I've previously documented my problems 
with it--and until somebody can tell me how to edit menus in Gnome 2.9, 
I'm not switching).  What do I need to do?