I haven't installed the latest Mandrake 9.1 build as I have been away for a good while but you can modify your /etc/profile and input your changes there. The entries that you would have added to your .bashrc or .bash_profile will be placed into your /etc/profile, instead. The only way that you can fix your .bashrc or .bash_profile is by destroying ... uh deleting and then recreating them. The issue has to do with how Mandrake created their .bashrc .bash_profile on their new distribution.

altoine