Can't custimize K Menu

Hello all. I have a strange problem. I installed OpenOffice.org RC3 today and noticed that the menu entries won't show up. I also noticed that when I right click on a document such as a powerpoint presentation and select "Open With" I don't see open office in the list of programs to choose from. I then opend up the menu editor and saw that OpenOffice does indeed have a menu entry that is not hidden. I then tried removing and adding menu entires and found that nothing I did affected the contents of the K Menu whatsoever. I tried removing my .kde directory and that didn't work either. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I'm using Suse 8.2 Pro and KDE 3.1.3. -Greg