Help restoring messed up settings

[Chris Green]

I recently lost the hard disk on which /home resides, most stuff was
backed up OK but I seem to have got my xfce settings very screwed up
somehow.  So some help sorting them out would be welcome.

I'm running xcfe version 3.8.5 on SuSE 7.3 Linux.

For starters whenever I try and save settings (whether explicitly or
just when logging off for example) I get a message box saying "Cannot
create file".  I have checked thoroughly all the file permissions in
my home directory and I can write to them all.  I've even done a
'chmod -R 777 *' and I still get the message!  Help, what file is xfce
trying to create and where?

Then the other thing is that I have a perfectly good xfwmrc file but
xfce doesn't seem to want to know about it

In .xsession-errors I'm getting:-

    xfwm message (type main):  Xinerama extension disabled

    xfwm message (type SessionInit):  X Session Manager not available
    Using builtin session management instead

    sh: gtk-config: command not found
    xrdb: No such file or directory
    xrdb: can't open file '/home/chris/.Xresources'
    XFce : /home/chris/.xfce/xfce3rc File not found.
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    /home/chris/.xfce/xfbdrc File not found.
    Loading GNOME menus
    Loading KDE menus
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
    sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied

Which of these matter?

-- 
Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)