KDE menu applications gone

[Barney Garrett <barney@telinformix.com>]

Hi,
I'm running SID and have just done an update on my system, unfortunately 
this appears to have broken things.  KDE is at 3.3.2-7, I am holding 
kdelibs abd kdelibs-bin untill the rest of the kde progs are updated to 
3.4.2

The KMenu has no applications in it, there is only bookmarks, quick 
browser, run command, lock session and logout showing
If I try running kcontrol from a konsole i get  WARNING: No K menu group 
with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/
and no icons are shown in the kcontrol window.

I've moved my .kde directorys away so that kde starts fresh but the 
problem doesn't go away.
I've done some searching but everything I've found doesn't appear to fix 
it.  (checking libqt versions and setting XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and 
XDG_DATA_DIRS in the .bashrc)
Is there anything else I can try or is this a package problem that is 
being worked on?

Many thanks
Barney