control center configuration

["F. Heitkamp" <"heitkamp ameritech net"@flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com>]

I compile and install gnome from scratch just for fun.
When I compile and install control center, for all versions I have 
tried, the desktop preference window comes up with nothing in it.  There 
are no icons or widgets...nothing.  When I run gnome-control-center on 
SuSE or Debian installs the window contains preference icons. When I go 
to the gnome applications directory the icons for preferences are there 
and work.  I just don't know how to get them in Desktop Preferences 
window .The latest gnomecc from CVS only spits an error 
gmenu_tree_directory_get_contents: assertion `directory != NULL' failed

I suppose I am missing some gconftool-2 magic that needs to finish the 
install. One other point, I install gnome in /usr/local/gnome216 if that 
matters.