Crontab file is garbled! HELP!

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Published on 2012-01-22T05:46:20Z Indexed on 2012/06/25 21:24 UTC
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I accidentally deleted my .bashrc file in Ubuntu 11.10. I think I restored it but I have two major issues now:

Everything that I type has a red squiggly line under it in this field and the suggestion is a german word.
My crontab file is completely garbled and looks like this:

\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\008\00\00\00\00\00\008@\00\00\00\00\008@\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00@\00\00\00\00\00\00\00@\00\00\00\00\00tw\00\00\00\00\00\00tw\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00 \00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00(~\00\00\00\00\00\00(~\00\00\00\00\00(~\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00H\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00 \00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00P~\00\00\00\00\00\00P~\00\00\00\00\00P~\00\00\00\00\00\90\00\00\00\00\00\00\90\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00

HELP!!!! I am new at Ubuntu and don't know what to do. Please don't tell me to reinstall because I don't know how to. I got this computer from system76 with Ubuntu installed in it.

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