Using Ubuntu 10.04 I have the same problem. The suggestion from above (CTRL+ALT+F1, than CTRL+ALT+F7) did not work for me. As I found out the applets are there; e.g. right-clicking where an applet should be shows its context menu, but their symbols are simply not shown. What does help here is resizing the panel. But of course this is no sensible solution and this bug it should be fixed.
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