Gnome panels are blank, programs won't come up.
OK, here's what happens: I log in, and Gnome comes up, but instead of the usual panels, I just have mostly blank grey bars on the top and bottom of the screen. The only thing there is the "show desktop" button in the lower left corner. Right-clicking on the panels doesn't do anything.
Since I can't run programs from the panel launchers, I open a terminal and type "firefox", and there are no error messages, but it doesn't come up. My guess is that it's running, because I don't get a new command prompt, but it doesn't appear on the screen because of the problems with Gnome.
All of this happens when I log in with my personal account. If I log in as root, everything works normally. I should add that my personal account is on a network server, whereas the root account is of course on the local computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
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