i think i have some insight on this.

i checked ~/.config/lxpanel and found default and Lubuntu directories. i
discovered that running lxpanel in terminal resulted in the funky
lxpanel because it was using default: http://i.imgur.com/cLaTr.png

then i looked in /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart where lxpanel is
initially run and found it was run as lxpanel --profile Lubuntu and
indeed running this in terminal results in the correct lxpanel.

still,  there was the funky battery icon:http://i.imgur.com/tahwT.png
and i happened to inadvertently notice that
/etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart also included xfce4-power-manager,
pcmanfm,  and xscreensaver,  all of which weren't running. running xfce4
-power-manager got the right icon back.

so i thought i would compare this with another 12.04 system i have. for
that matter,  the contents of /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu match in terms
of md5sum. same permissions (i even checked with stat -c '%a %n' *),
same owner,  same group.

there are no errors running anything in terminal. so it's not like it
gets to a point and then fails the whole script (unlikely behavior in
any case).  i thought maybe those little @ signs at the beginning might
be the problem. i know they're meant to run the program in the
background, but maybe— nope.

so i still agree with the idea that there is something wrong with a
config or some startup script but i can't seem to find any conflict. any
other ideas?

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