Moronic newbie question

[Benj <lazyfun myrealbox com>]

I'm about half way through building gnome 2.4 through gargnome when i
realised installing as root was probably really really stupid.  I'm only
on a modem so how can I rebuild to my home directory without losing the
tarbells I've allready downloaded?  I can see them (as well as bad, root
makefile) under .../garnome-0.27.1/gnome/...  What should I do?

Thanks in advance,
Ben