Comment 44 for bug 450082

>Then, kill all processes named "ubuntuone-
client-applet", and open a terminal and run it manually.

Same with me - when I did that, the applet came up in connected state.

>Finally, when you run "ubuntuone-client-preferences", what do you see?

Nothing out of the ordinary:
Show icon: When updating (translated from Dutch)
Connect on start: Automatically
[unchecked] Limit Bandwidth Usage
speed selectors greyed out