Lost my menu options again - KDE messes with Gnome?

[dave at tokyocomedy.com (Dave Gutteridge)]

> 
> I don't understand why you should even need to log out (except
> that you need to use the same keyboard, something like that,
> but no *system* reason).

Beats me. I think it's weird too. But, honestly, I'm not so worried
about it. I'm much more interested in trying to get my default menu
options back. After it was determined that it wasn't just a user
settings issue, advice about what to do sort of dropped off and I'm
unsure about what to do.

Dave