path - -bash: export: ''not a valid identifier when logging into terminal

Hi Whenever I log into the terminal I get the following error

-bash: export: `/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/nz/bin': not a valid identifier

I am logging in through the root user, and the export variable is $PATH

Answer

You probably have the command

export $PATH

(or something like it) in one of your initialization files (.profile, .bashrc, etc.) 
Find it and change it, perhaps to

export PATH

(note: no $) or comment it out and see if anything breaks.