I am stumped. I had kde3.3 working fine, but on upgrading to 3.4 my panel applets like taskbar won't start up. The message says "The Taskbar applet could not be loaded. Please check your installation." If I remove my old ~/.kde dirs to create a clean startup then several of the panel applets give errors on login, and then kicker crashes. If I use my old 3.3 kickerrc then kicker doesn't crash, but the panel applets still won't start. Any ideas? Is there a log to look at somewhere? I'm thinking this must be related to some old kde version data sitting around somewhere, but I haven't been able to find any. I'm running Gentoo and my install has been up 3 years, so it's accumulated some old stuff. Thanks for any help, -Wes ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.