troubles starting up gnome

[Joel <jmartin engsoc carleton ca>]

I can't get the panel to load.  I'm FAIRLY sure that all packages are
installed, and most of the other apps from gnome work okay.  I get error
messages about not being able to open pixmaps.

here is the output from the error message - sorry, its a lot (;
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    gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-up.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-down.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-purple-up.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-purple-down.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-green-up.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-green-down.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-blue-up.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-blue-down.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/panel-arrow-left.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/panel-arrow-up.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/panel-arrow-right.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/panel-arrow-down.png
All fallbacks failed.
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-icon-transparent.png
All fallbacks failed.

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject'

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725 (gtk_signal_connect_after):
assertion `object != NULL' failed.

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject'

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 700 (gtk_signal_connect):
assertion `object != NULL' failed.

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1416 (gtk_widget_show):
assertion `widget != NULL' failed.

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject'

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkobject.c: line 1077 (gtk_object_set_user_data):
assertion `object != NULL' failed.

** CRITICAL **: file applet.c: line 426 (register_toy): assertion
`applet != NULL' failed.
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Can anyone help?

Thanx,
Joel