Gnome panel and desktop icons mysteriously changed

[CB]

Jim Cornette wrote:

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> Did you try to change to another theme? The theme that I use has the 
> foot instead of the hat. I'm not sure about the alarm notify problem 
> though.
>
> You could back up the .gnome, .gnome2 and the .gnome_private 
> equivelent directories. You will loose any custumized settings you 
> made. You will have to set things up as you just created the account.
>
> Jim

I had always stayed with the fedora default bluecurve theme. I did try 
moving to another theme and then back, but that didn't fix it. I'll try 
your suggestion with the .gnome* directories.