Comment 1 for bug 587990

I can confirm this, and confirm that the above work-around (manually adding "Type=Application" to /home/USER/.config/autostart/drapes) seems to have fixed the problem.

from my syslog, prior to applying work around:

Jun 3 11:04:38 USER-LM9-desktop gnome-session[1753]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/USER/.config/autostart/drapes.desktop: Key file does not have key 'Type'
Jun 3 11:04:38 USER-LM9-desktop gnome-session[1753]: WARNING: could not read /home/USER/.config/autostart/drapes.desktop

OS: LinuxMint 9 (Isadora) - Main (based on Ubuntu 10.04 lucid)
Kernel: 2.6.32-21 generic
Gnome: 2.30.0
Other:Compiz Fusion w/Emerald