Ok, played till late last night, woke up this morning: "Hm.. I know! I'll play VO!"
Go upstairs, fire it up, opens up fullscreen: "that's odd".
Go to sign on, different username: "uh-oh"
Go to config menu... everything is unbound... all my settings are defaulted: "poo.. just rebind everything...", spent a few minutes doing that.
Notice that buttons beyond 5 don't bind in the linux config menu, quit to see if I can't edit the files manually to add them.
Uh... wgaf.cfg is completely empty... as in 0 byte file... same with config.ini
Read around the forums for a bit, found that restoring Defaults might work, tried that, no luck :(
Tried going in and out of VO, deleting the files, not deleting the files and going in out of VO, then doing it over a few more times...

Now I'm here.. crying inside.. * sniffle *..

Edit: Interesting... I just noticed that all the log files are now 0 byte files too...
Also, if I delete all the log and config files and load VO, the default binds are loaded, but if I exit and load VO again, the binds are blank. Except the 3 weapon firing binds, which are bound to some joystick buttons

Umm, is your hard drive full?

That's it, I'm adding a Gkrellm monitor for my HD space... this is SOO freakin embarassing...

At first I laughed, then I said "well, worth a shot at this point"
$df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde3 19G 18G 0 100% /

:'(

Remember Gentoo users, failed/stopped compiles leave all the extra compilation stuff laying around, clean it up:
rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage/*/work

* le sigh *

yoosty69, I'm so proud of you. Not many could go through what you did without a few expletives aimed at Vendetta and then at yourself.

Thanks too for the Linux tips!

# rm -fr /var/tmp/portage/*
# rm -fr /usr/portage/distfiles/*
# ccache -c

tmpreaper , configure it to monitor /usr/portage/distfiles and /var/tmp . :)

I've put mine on 4 weeks timeout, but then I have a bit more disk than I'm supposed to ;)