Guys, This issue with missing icons and no desktop -> panel kcontol settings seems to be limited to one box. I have taken the same packages and installed them on another box and i686 looks fine. But, "what is messed up on this box?" I have tried the old tricks. - kbuildsycoca --noincremental - creating new user and logging in as him (no luck) - I have downgraded and tested -> same issue I did manager to get a kicker.kcrash trying to add an app to kicker that might help and I have it attached. Let me know what you think. P.S. - I would have just attached this in a reply, but my first thread hasn't come through the mailing list yet. Strange - that was over and hour and twenty minutes ago? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.