Running mandrake 7.2 here. Ok, now whilst working on my problems with the mounting of cdrom, I made some headway and was in kpackage as root. I was messing in the kpackage, just looking at some rpm files, you know with the explanation of them on the right. Well I decided to leave the kpackage program, so I left, and when I did returning to root's desktop, suddenly for no reason the menu that pops up from the k start button was missing most of the kde related icons and menus. I HAD NOT DONE ANYTHING to cause the menu to be missing half of the menu items. I was devastated. I did nothingrelated to working with the menu. So I hurredly logged out of root, did not save session and logged back in as user to see if something had happened to the user menu, but I checked and it was all there. So then I logged back in as root to see if the menu would come back and it has not. Here is all that pops up from the kde start button using root: listed from bottom(just above K) to top: logout lock screen about kde panel menu run quick browser recent documents bookmarks applications amusement Please help I did nothing to remove all these menu listings but I need them back as root, here are the ones I need back: home directory help control center terminals office networking multimedia documentation configuration