skype permissions

[Rem P Roberti]

OK...get this.  As stated earlier I did a complete reinstall of Skype.  
I shut down the
system for a while, and when I brought it back up and called Skype from 
a user's
command line the licensing window came up, followed by the sign on window .
But when I try to log on it tells me that "another instance" of Skype 
may be running.
That's as far as it goes.  But, of course, if I call Skype from root's 
command line the
program loads perfectly.

Rem