Ximian Desktop 2 Woes

[Gerry Tool <gstool earthlink net>]

The day after XD2 was released, I installed it on my up2date RH9 system.
 I marveled at the wonderful look and feel of the Gnome desktop, the
Evolution 1.4 and Mozilla 1.3.  Everything looked beautiful.

Then, day by day I found more and more things that didn't work right
anymore.   It removed my Crossover Office menus from Gnome.  It removed
Gimp from my KDE menu.  It removed my OpenOffice.org menus from KDE.  It 
added two non-working icons to my KDE desktop - a .desktop file for my 
home directory using Nautilus which refused to work, and a My Computer 
icon ditto.  Removing them worked as long as I didn't log into Gnome 
again.  That put them back onto the KDE desktop again.

In general, it has confused both sets of menus.  It uninstalled some 
RHL9 programs and substituted its own versions for others, so now 
up2date thinks I need to reinstall them, but I expect that XD2 will not 
work correctly if I do.

I am now about to start over with a fresh install of RHL9 and redo all 
the customization that I did since installing RHL9 almost 2 months ago. 
 I hope I remember this the next time I'm tempted by hype about Ximian 
desktop working with RH Linux.  It may install, but it certainly is not 
compatible.  I recall doing a similar dumb thing with RHL 7.3.  You 
would think I would have learned.

Has anyone else had similar problems?

Gerry Tool