Look at the kicker. This is the result of something weird having to do with a video card upgrade I recently did. It's probably because of the nVidia driver, but anyway...

When KDE loads, my kicker isn't transparent. In order to get it transparent, I need to open the kicker configuration, turn off transparency, turn it back on, then turn it off again. The small panel to the right is then transparent as it should be, but the panel at the bottom is the funky thing you see here. I like it. I like it a lot. It's sad to think it won't do that anymore if I fix this problem. Anyone know of a way I can get it to do this normally?