No one else crashing?

So...am I to gather from the lack of chatter that no one else is finding it impossible to start SL after yesterday's update? My client now just opens a window that remains white for several seconds before crashing. After hitting okay to send the crash report I still have to Force Quit to get the window to go away. I'm on a Core Duo iMac. I sort of assumed it was a Mac thing, maybe an Intel Mac thing, but no one else has mentioned it in this forum...

Edit: Nevermind, I can now login--after removing my settings folder (didn't work), removing the entire application and downloading the whole thing again (didn't work), and then removing the settings folder again (finally worked). If I put out code like this at work I would be fired...