I have since re-installed the machine with Flight 6 and the error has disappeared. I suppose it occured somewhere along the line via dist-upgrade.
Thanks. -- The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_NetstatusApplet". https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38240 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs