empty applications menu

[Ryan James]

after updates from the 4th or the 5th, my applications 
menu has been
empty. running update-desktop-database parses through all 
the .desktop
files but says "lacks mimetype key" for each one:

[root localhost ~]# update-desktop-database -v
Search path is now:
[/usr/local/share/applications, /usr/share/applications]
File '/usr/local/share/applications/marlin.desktop' lacks 
MimeType key
File '/usr/local/share/applications/gnome-mud.desktop' 
lacks MimeType key
File '/usr/share/applications/xfce-panel-settings.desktop' 
lacks MimeType key
File '/usr/share/applications/redhat-evolution.desktop' 
lacks MimeType key
File 
'/usr/share/applications/gnome-default-applications.desktop' 
lacks MimeType key
File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop' 
lacks MimeType key
File 
'/usr/share/applications/gnome-session-properties.desktop' 
lacks MimeType key
File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-devhelp.desktop' lacks 
MimeType key
File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-dasher.desktop' lacks 
MimeType key
File '/usr/share/applications/gnome-bug-buddy.desktop' 
lacks MimeType
key

etc.

anyone else seeing this? i'm not sure where to put a 
bugzilla entry.

***sorry for the second send, i just noticed that it ended 
up RE: some other topic in the archives for some reason.

-ryan