Problems after upgrade to 8.04

[Nils Kassube]

Sam Przyswa wrote:
> I upgraded my system with the update manager to v8.04 and now my
> personal desktop account it's no more usable, I loose the windows style
> and my numeric pad doesn't work.
>
> I have to logging on root.

I suppose some config files were modified and now belong to root. Then 
this command in a terminal should help:

sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME


Nils