KDE Laptop Battery Monitor

Hi, I am running KDE 3.3 (from supplementary) with Suse 9.1 professional on my laptop. My question is regarding the Laptop Battery control panel module in Kcontrol. I have checked the box that says "Show Battery Monitor". And I also click on Start Battery Monitor. However, I do not see any icons in the system tray corresponding to the Laptop Battery applet. Any idea, how to fix this? On a related note, I run kpowersave and that has it's own icon in the system tray. However, for me, kpowersave is not desired because I have two batteries - display for which is not supported well by kpowersave but only by the laptop battery module in kcontrol. Anyone experienced this before? thanks, Osho