problem w Gnome panel and Starting prgms from menu

["adam cotian" <adam txtMania com>]

Hi guys,

I have Gnome 2.0.6

I accidentally deleted the Gnome panel on my Mandrake 9.0 (they said
that Mandrake users are nost welcome here I ), would anyone know how to
restore it. Since I could not access anything thru the GUI, I am
assuming that I have to do it via terminal. Any help would be
appreciated.

Also, I am having a hard time starting my OpenOffice1.1 from the menu.
It has a link to soowriter, which starts up but does not complete the
opening of the program. I opened my Konqueror file manager as a root
user and found a file /usr/lib/openoffice/programs/soffice which when
clicked used to open the Openoffice program but after a week or so this
method does not work anymore.

Help!


Thanks

adam