Found a fix for this on the Ubuntu forums.
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Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/
PGP key id 5EA01078
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--- menu-xdg.orig 2005-07-23 14:08:27.212430884 +0100
+++ menu-xdg 2005-07-23 14:13:31.849552625 +0100
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
function Dirs() =
ifempty($section,ifroot(
- "<AppDir>/var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg</AppDir>\n"
+ "<AppDir>/var/lib/menu-xdg/applications</AppDir>\n"
"<DirectoryDir>/var/lib/menu-xdg/desktop-directories/menu-xdg</DirectoryDir>\n",
"<DirectoryDir>"
parent(parent(prefix()))
