After lots of difficulties hanging my maching with apm, I lost the ability to log out of gnome. The menu item is still there, and it seems to click ok, but nothing happens. There doesn't seem to be any documentation describing what's going on behind the scenes, which I'll refrain from submitting as another bug. Also, there are tons of error messages on the console after exiting gnome/X, the last of which is something like 'unreferenced style'. I can check and submit that/those too if you want.
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Try upgrading to a newer version of GNOME, too. That should fix most of those problems