Did you by any chance change some security settings? I had lost this it too (the dragon disappeared and no shutdown button in the logon screen) and got it back after i changed the security settings back to "easy local". HTH.
Cheers, Marcel
Yes indeed, I had changed filesystem to "Secure", but when I found I could not make GUI settings stick I set it back to "Easy"peasy. But no dragons.
Is this definitely correlated do you think?
I think so, but i'm not sure. at the time i lost the dragon and the shutdown button i had been playing with a lot of settings (was my first logon after initial install, you know: lots to configure). Changing back to "easy" security settings and shutdown behaviour back to "local" resolved this problem. But If you can't get this back it could be a bug. Otherwise it's a feature ;-) Anyway, try playing around with these settings. I would try it for you but haven't got the time right now. cheers, Marcel