I was having the same issue. I turned off visual effects as suggested and the menu appeared just as reported. I had previously installed the Nvidia Driver 96.43.09. Running Ubuntu 8.1, AMD CPU 32 bit as reported above. I hope this helps and is able to lead to a fix. I like those effects!
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