"Contributor" able to login, but does not see his dashboard

I am just about trying with the diffrent WP roles at my blog. Recently, I added a user as “contributor”. She is able to login, but is redirected to ../wp-admin page (–MESSAGE -You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page).

Same message appears, when she tries to access her profile.

However, she is able to add / view posts by manually typing in ../wp-admin/edit.php in the url.

[OBSERVATION]. soon after loggin in, all are redirected to …/wp-admin.. section of the dashboard (correct behaviour)
But, the …wp-admin.. assumes that all are “site-admin” and when it encounters a user who is “Not Site Admin”.. the error message shows up.

Is it possible to write a custom page (userdash.php) and have this detect and redirect the user to appropriate url, using “Roles” as the identifying criteria? … may be.. there is a much simpler fix..i just dont know it yet

I just want the user (contributor) to add posts (& submit for review), edit her posts, and possibly edit her profile as well… Nothing out of the way
[OBSERVATION].