Thank you redmond!
Somehow my panel got messed up in Guh-nome. It had to do with the SUSE main menu I have been using. But I couldn't find a directory to delete in order to "reset" the settings. Aparantly it's stored in gconf and this is how you can reset it (thanks redmond!)
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
killall gnome-panel
