No panel under KDE

Relative newbie running Debian 2.2. I've removed and reinstalled KDE twice via dselect and consistently get the same situation: I do not get a panel under KDE. I only get a desktop with a couple of icons. I can manually run kselect, which lets me set the options on the panel but the panel

Re: No panel under KDE

and reinstalled KDE twice via dselect and consistently get the same situation: I do not get a panel under KDE. I only get a desktop with a couple of icons. I can manually run kselect, which lets me set the options on the panel but the panel doesn't show up. find tells me that I do not have a file