On an installation from the alternate CD, I found that the .gnome2 directory of my normal user account was owned by root. Doing a 'sudo chmod -R myuser:mygroup .gnome2' (with appropriate replacements) seems to have resolved this issue for me.
On an installation from the alternate CD, I found that the .gnome2 directory of my normal user account was owned by root. Doing a 'sudo chmod -R myuser:mygroup .gnome2' (with appropriate replacements) seems to have resolved this issue for me.