battery charge status applet broken?

[Steve Ward]

OK, I loaded the acpid RPM and started it, loaded ac and battery 
modules, now when I start the battery monitor applet it works fine but 
my cursor goes "out of control" and races about the screen doing random 
things.

If I manage to logout of the session and the login screen returns, the 
cursor becomes sane again.

Confirmed after a power cycle.

Ideas?