GNOME applications menu empty

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The GNOME applications menu shows no installed applications in any  
user account. Also, when I try to access help within GNOME, I get an  
error message about no file association. I tried editing  
applications.menu based on information from the GNOME lists, but to  
no avail. I have all the current GNOME ports installed under 10.4.9  
PPC. KDE is also installed, and seems to work about as well as you  
would expect.

Anyone else have this problem? Thanks for replies.