Hey, I did a bit of Googling and found a temporary fix to the bug in Nautilus where it crashes on startup, from a BSD list (sorry no URL as firefox keeps crashing :-( ). The bug must have something to do with displaying mounted filesystems on the desktop, seeing as the fix is to remove all commented lines and user-added lines.
My revised fstab is below as an example. I admit it's not a very useful fstab, but I do like having nautilus back...sorry if the formatting is screwy. proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hde6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hde5 none swap sw 0 0 Hope this helps someone. Has there been any progress on getting this fixed properly? Best wishes, Matt