Nautilus unable to browse home directory

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Hey folks --

I can't figure this one out. I spent the past 3 days or so building 
binary packages with 'make package' -- xorg, DRI, GNOME, compiz, 
mplayer, etc -- on my Eee PC using a USB drive. When I was finished, I 
tested everything and it was working fine.

I reinstalled the exact same -current snapshot from the autobuild 
cluster and kernel to the internal solid state drive when I was 
comfortable that everything worked. For some reason though, Nautilus 
will now no longer allow me to browse my home directory. The desktop 
comes up, draws the background, but no icons show up and the mouse 
cursor is an hour glass. If I open up a directory dialogue to my home 
directory, I get the same behaviour, but if I navigate away I can browse 
the rest of the file system just fine.

I have no idea why this worked when installed from source but the 
package fails in this way. Any ideas?

Cheers,
Jared