Jack Reilly
In ~/.kde2/share/applnk/Settings I have these directories:
FileBrowsing Information Network Personalization Sound WebBrowsing Help LookNFeel Peripherals PowerControl System YaST
Does that list corespond to the list that should be appearing in the left panel of my Control Center?
I don't know. I suggest you ask kcontrol developers. You can check if kcontrol or its children open them by $ strace -f kcontrol 2>&1 |grep open|grep -v ENOENT|sort -u (Note the "-f" option). If the problem is related to your personal settings in ~/.kde2, then I suggest that you rename this directory (to e.g. ~/.kde2.old) and restart your KDE2 session. KDE2 will create a new one. The problem may also be related to your upgrade. One of my KDE2 upgrades failed, KDE2 didn't start at all. I didn't investigate it thoroughly, it just seemed to me I had downloaded a mixture of old and new KDE2 releases from a SuSE mirror. My experience is that, for instance, ftp.mirror.ac.uk is synchronized with ftp.suse.com well, but ftp.sunet.se sometimes also keeps old stuff in its directories. It seems to me there is no mechanism preventing users from downloading a content of an ftp mirror directory which is in the middle of its update. I compare the content of the INDEX file on ftp.suse.com and its mirror before I download packages from the mirror, but I'm not sure it's sufficient. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se