David Brownlee wrote:
>     Actually, now I find that Skype doesn't remember my account
>     details correctly and that I need to delete the account
>     subdirectory of ~/.Skype - most odd. Calls all work fine
>     though...

Is your home directory on NFS mounted filesystem?

This is what I had to do to make things work (NetBSD/i386 3.0 NFS
server with Ubuntu 5.10 client):

n71:~> ls -al .Skype
lrwxrwxrwx  1 martti users 24 2005-07-26 23:04 .Skype -> 
/opt/skype/martti/.Skype

n71:~> df -h /home
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
n70:/home             105G   17G   83G  17% /home

Martti