kde problems after 8.2 upgrade

After I upgrade one of my machines to suse 8.2 it screwed up the menu at the bottem of the kde window, but only for older machines. If I logged into a 8.2 machine it looked fine, but when I logged into an 8.1 machine buttons were missing and it said failed to read directory on some. The server is running 8.1, if that helps, any suggestions on why using 8.2 would mess things up? After the upgrade it also screwed up how gnome works, some of the same symptoms, only its messed up on the 8.2 machine too.