Gnome in 9.1 Desktop Messed up

I installed SuSE 9.1 twice and got same problem with Gnome desktop icons and fonts not displaying consistently. I was able to set up Gnome the second time but after starting KDE once, again had the messed up desktop. I checked the archive and found one reference to the issue but no solution. I would appreciate any leads. I am a recent convert from RH and would like to use Gnome. I have a Dell 350 ws with a 1800FP flat screen monitor and a nvidia quadro 4 900 XGL video card. All that works fine in KDE. I noticed that XaST does not list the Dell 1800FP monitor and installs the VESA driver. Perhaps someone has the XFree86 config file that works for this PC or something close. Norm