Gnome Panel

["Aristide Aragon" <aristide lionking org>]

Hello
I'm new to this list, as I'm new to gnome. I used to use KDE and then
moved to window maker. Windowmaker was fine, but all of a sudden it
starting segfaulting.. So, I'm using gnome.
A couple of days ago I had a problem, and I still can't fix it.
I was trying ldescent, a Descent 1 port to Linux, and suddenly all
applets dissapeared from my panel, and all my windows dissapeared.
After trying alt+tab with no success I pressed control alt backspace,
and then I discovered my windows were still alive, anyways it was too
late nd X closed.
Ever since my applets didn't appear back in my panel, and I can't add
any applet to it. I don't get any error message or anything, they
just don't show up.
I tried renaming my ~/.gome and also created a new panel to try in
that one, none worked.
I also tried upgrading my gnome (that was about a month old) and that
didn't work either, I can't add applets to the panel.
I tried starting a panel from a console so if there were ny stderr
messages I would see them, but I failed to even start a panel, even
if I killed the old panel (because it restarts automatically).
Does anybody know what's going on?

Aristide