Orca problem starting orca

[MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 btinternet com>]

I don't know whether this is because i have an early version of Orca but 
I can only seem to run Orca from the Gnome terminal?
I thought I was having speech automatically start after login but it 
doesn't appear to be the case as sometimes occasionally it did and would 
go to the desktop.
Most of the time I have to do ALT F2, type gnome-terminal, press enter 
and then type Orca and hit enter again to get speech and sometimes I 
have to do this more than once before I get speech running.
I even have to hit escape before I repeat this command so something is 
messing up somewhere.
Is this due to the early version of Orca that is in the Ubuntu's 
Universe reposotory or could it be that Gnopernicus is trying to run and 
the two screenreaders are clashing, causing speech not to start 
automatically?
I have switched off all the login sounds so I get no sound after I login 
and I have checked accessability under System preferences and it is 
checked and I think speech is checked as well so I don't know what is 
going wrong.