Constantly Switching Gnome Theme on Fresh Install

[Torrance <torrance123@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I've just done a fresh install of Debian Etch from a daily build net- 
install cd image on an iMac DV SE (g3, graphite), and everything is  
working fine except that the gnome theme is constantly changing  
between the one I have it set to and and old-looking theme. It looks  
as though there is some conflict between theme settings.

After a while, I received this error:

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There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not  
work correctly.

The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.

The last error message was:

System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Child process did not  
give an error message, unknown failure occurred

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log  
in.
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So what's going on? It's bringing my system to a halt. Not sure if  
its a ppc-specific issue or not.

Torrance