Tray applet doesnt launch properly at boot/logon

When I boot and logon, the tray applet for network manager is a black square. (See image, just above mouse cursor)

A right click on this black square doesn't bring up the netman menu, just the tray's.

Removing the notification area from the panel and adding it back resolves the problem, I have to do this at every boot.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Nov 14 12:26:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
IpRoute:
 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.10 metric 1
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.101 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.51-ftlap
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31.4-ft-2009-11-06 x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2306): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2415): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2407): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-power-manager:2416): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed