Comment 1 for bug 710893

forgot to mention some background details:
gnomenu 2.9 (currently the Menu theme, but changing this doesn't seem to have an effect)
gnome 2.28
ubuntu 10.04

some additional weirdness I just noticed:
if there are 2 instances of GnoMenu added to my panel, only one of them will break in this way.
if I 'run-in-window' from the command line rather than add to my gnome panel, it will not break.
if I enable desktop effects, it will not break.