didn't make any changes - afaik
these are my $PATHs:    (all stock install)
olzeke51@devASCII:~/Desktop$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
root@devASCII:~# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
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Thanx - gz