OK, having somehow fixed the other two, now this crazy thing shows up.
On one user account (but not the other two) something bizarre and disastrous seems to have happened to the menu. You click the star, and get this awful thing with sliding cascades and half the apps missing and four buttons at the bottom.
I can find no way of getting this user account back to the normal menu system. Neither in Mandriva's control centre nor in the KDE one.
Any ideas?
Al