Gnome panel and desktop icons mysteriously changed: SOLVED but now is a vnc problem

[CB]

CB wrote:

> All the icons on the desktop and panel of my main login user have 
> changed (other users desktops are still OK). For example, the panel 
> menu icon is now the gnome footprint rather than the redhat logo, and 
> directories on the desktop now use a generic text file icon rather 
> than the original folder.
>
> Any ideas on how this might have happened, and how to restore things?
>
> Cheers,
>
> CB.
>
>

It turns out that when I stop the vncserver service, this problem goes 
away. I assume that the vnc server is locking something essention in (in 
one of the .gnome* directories?). Have I misconfigured vnc in some way, 
or is this always going to happen?