For the unofficial packages, I got this to work by logging out, and killing gconfd-2 with great prejudice. Also, I found the original stickynotes_applet site, downloaded the source, and replaced the stickynote schema in the unofficial packages with the one from the source, since there seemed to be a lot of differences in the diffs.
The last step may or may not be necessary. I didn't look at the schema differences too deeply. -- | Kliban's First Law of Dining: | Never eat anything bigger than your head.
