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Terminal not running shell bash

Hi,

My terminal somehow turned into some kind of a text-editor, I open it up and the window title says "Terminal - Login - 130x33" with no prompt, just a black window with a cursor just like any text editor, my understanding of the problem is that the Terminal.app is not running bash when it starts.

I tried deleting the Terminal's preferences file, changing the "shell opens with" setting in the Terminal preferences ... nothing is working!

any ideas to fix this?!

http://i.imgur.com/mU6DA.png

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