Im not sure if this has been documented here before, but I found this pretty cool tip on macosxhints.com. If you set your login preferences to user name / password, then type ">console" as the user name, with no password then login. It will dump you to a fully working text login prompt . You can login and work in full user text mode. To get back to Aqua, simply type "exit". I hope this helps anyone that needs to work in full text mode.

If someone could figure out how to automatically log in like that would be cool I know there is single user mode, but for some reason it has trouble completing it when I load /etc/rc script.

Noice, just like my old leenucks box