I choose low res graphics and started up.
I immediately received the error: loading "OAFIID:GNOME_PANEL_TrashApplet". I
had the same thing happened yesterday morning with the clock applet.

I can click on things now it seems.
In the system logs, under messages I see

wadesmart kernel ... radeon 0000:01:00.0: VGA-1: EDID invalid.

Under syslog there is a lot of
gdm-binary: WARNING: Unable to load file, find users, and session warnings.

Anything specifically to be looking for?