Audacity executable not responding

[JeepNut]

openSuSE 10.2 32 bit version running on an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ system w/ 2Gb ram. No new hardware lately. System has been running well and was running Audacity 1.3.4-2.pm.beta just fine until just this week. I've had some kind of corrupted file in the /home/.Trash-0 folder and had to go thru somewhat extraordinary means to get rid of the corrupted files. But now that the Trash bin issue has been resolved, I find that when I try to run the Audacity executable it won't run.
There is a quick light of the HDD monitor LED and absolutely nothing more observable happens. There are no temporary files created, no splash, no errors, nothing.
Checking Process Table and there are no Audacity processes running.
Same thing happens if I logon as root.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled Audacity and several related apps and applets according to various online posts about problems with Audacity and nothing has made any difference at all.
I've run back through the sound card hardware setup to no avail.
And indeed the sound system works fine. Self test at start up is successful and Amarok, Kaffeine, AVIDeMux, MPlayer, etc. all work fine in terms of sound output. VNC does not. (just realized that one...it WAS working fine last week too...)
Any ideas what the deal is?
Never saw an application that simply would not at least initialize or start and hang, or throw an error of some sort.
I'm desperate as Audacity is pretty much in a league by itself in terms of .mp3 editors as far as I know.
Sweep is nice but won't handle .mp3's last I checked.
Thanks for any help.

[steve]

Check that JACK is not running (stop it if it is).
Delete the audacity.cfg from ~/.audacity-data

then try opening Audacity.

[JeepNut]

Jack does not show running in the Process Table list.
There is no .audacity-cfg file. No files are created in the user path at all.
Here is a listing of every audacit* file on the system.

file:///usr/bin/audacity
file:///usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/audacity.debug
file:///usr/share/applications/audacity.desktop
file:///usr/share/audacity
(folder with nyquist plugins, no .cfg file)
file:///usr/share/audacity/audacity.xpm
file:///usr/share/doc/packages/audacity
(folder with a couple of txt files)
file:///usr/share/man/man1/audacity.1.gz
file:///usr/share/mime/packages/audacity.xml
file:///usr/share/pixmaps/audacity.png
file:///usr/share/update-desktop-files/templates/Multimedia/audacity.desktop
file:///usr/src/debug/audacity-src-1.3.4-beta
file:///usr/src/debug/audacity-src-1.3.4-beta/images/AudacityLogoWithName.xpm
file:///usr/src/debug/audacity-src-1.3.4-beta/src/AudacityApp.cpp
file:///usr/src/debug/audacity-src-1.3.4-beta/src/AudacityApp.h
file:///usr/src/debug/audacity-src-1.3.4-beta/src/Audacity.h

[steve]

There is no .audacity-cfg file. No files are created in the user path at all.

the file is called audacity.cfg
It is not normally in: /usr/
it is usually in: ~/.audacity-data

That's a hidden folder in your "Home" directory.

[JeepNut]

Thanks. Understand about hidden files.

A poster on a linuxquestions.org forum suggested to start from a command prompt.
When I did that, the terminal revealed this error:
error while loading shared libraries: libmad.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This was either corrupted or needed bumped in version.
Ran YaST and updated all regarding libmad and the problem is resolved.
Thanks for taking time to help.