Help! Pismo booting to command line?

[TL]

OK, finally caught the text of the initial console screen:

"Darwin/BSD (Pismo.local) (console)

systemStarter: The following startup items failed to properly start:

[day time]: System/Library/Startup Items/Cron
[day time]: -execution of startup script failed
[day time]:

[day time]: System/Library/startup items/Login Window
[day time]: -execution of startup script failed
[day time]:"

I may have the spaces/item names slightly off there, but that's pretty much what it says. hit any key and it moves back to requesting a login.

Starting the archive/install process now. Joy.