RHN up2date status applet--keeps disappearing.

[Ben Russo <Ben umialumni com>]

The little round button that has three appearances:
      red with a white exclamation mark
      green with opossite facing white horizontal arrows
      blue with a white check mark.
that shows up in your Gnome/KDE menu bar....

On my system it showed up the first time I logged in.
Then I ran the rhn_register, and ran up2date, and
played around for a while and it disappeared.

It doesn't show up when I reboot the system or when
I log out and back in to X-windows.

I can restart it from the start menu, and it will stay there
for a while, but it eventually disappears again....

I had this same problem under RedHat 8.0, and finally
just gave up on the stupid applet,

But it is a nice feature.... 
Anybody know if there is a simple way to fix it?
Or at least know what the problem is?

-Ben.