Well i deleted wine ,and aparently got rid of everything in applications ,i went into home folder and found menus and nothing empty!how do i get the programs back in to the menus to run !
i had to reinstall gnome-terminal and only way it comes up is run application thru alt f2 !
also tried edit menus dosent even show up becouse nothing there i guess!
any help would be greatly appreciated!

acer 5515
Ubuntu 9.04
uninstalled wine becouse nothing worked and got some bad uninstall advice
which happens from time to time !already been thru google and other sites and really no advice found that would help!

ran alacarte and this is what i got ?

free@free:~$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 50, in __init__
self.editor = MenuEditor()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
self.__loadMenus()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 46, in __loadMenus
self.applications.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.applications.path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
parser.Parse("", True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
free@free:~$

this is more info i hope helps!

(solved)did this= home folder/iconf/menus/ rename menus and new file will be created on reboot worked like a charm have everthing back that was deleted thanks to all !

All good in the world today!hehehe!