Compiz removes menu items

[R. G. Newbury]

Well compiz is supposed to do *neat* stuff, so I did a 'yum install 
compiz' on my Thinkpad T40 running FC6. The Thinkpad has an ATI Radeon 
chipset. The install found 4 dependencies and they were installed too.

Then after looking at the help, I ran 'compiz --restart'. I was not 
net-attached so I did no browsing beforehand. (Yes, mea culpa. Mea 
maxima culpa.)

On reboot, my desktop had changed from KDE to Gnome, with NO icons on 
the desktop, and an entirely blank panel (the strip across the bottom of 
the screen..The left part of the panel was now at the top of the 
screen). More interesting was that a number of the menu items in the 
'Fedora' menu had disappeared: administration, utilities, control 
center...Even MORE interesting was that none of the available menus had 
an entry for 'Console' or 'Terminal'. I know  GUI stuff is supposed to 
replace the need for a command line but this was..absurd.

After a little headscratching, I did a Ctl-Alt-F1, and ran 'switchdesk 
kde'. Reboot gave me back my KDE desktop BUT the menus are still messed 
up. I have the desktop icons back and the panel, but the Administration, 
Control Center and Utilities menu items are still missing. (Both 
Accessories and Games now list waaaaaayyyy more programs than before).

And the Menu Editor entry does nothing....

Any ideas anyone, about how I get those entries back?


Geoff