profile.php

I’ve been trouble shooting a problem that began a couple days ago with the attempt to install 3.0. You may have seen another post. The problem has been that I am unable to log into the admin/dashboard page and get a … do not haver permissions… blank page.
I tried a number of suggestions relating to plug ins and data base capabilities with no change.
So I totally restored my site, with custom interface for Word Press Blog to a pre 3.0 installation attempt.
Now I have managed to get a log-in page but when I tried to log in I got “THE MESSAGE!” again.
I tried changing my password, no help.
So I decided to look at the profile.php page. I’m not a programer but I”m wondering if this code file might be corrupted in someway. Maybe to many spaces or * ‘s.
Anyone have any ideas?

I am looking at the profile.php page. Does anyone notice anything out of place here? Should there be all the spaces between lines and extra lines with *
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<?php
/**
* User Profile Administration Panel.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Administration
*/

/**
* This is a profile page.
*
* @since unknown
* @var bool
*/
define(‘IS_PROFILE_PAGE’, true);

/** Load User Editing Page */
require_once(‘user-edit.php’);
?>
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Thanks,
JR