XFCE Icon Issues

[MandM]

I've recently installed xfce on my laptop and have been loving every minute of it... until I tried to customize it.

I went to xfce-look.org and downloaded a couple of themes, icon sets, etc and installed them in the perscribed locations.

Now, in my xfce menu's there are blank spots where icons used to be. In my settings manager window, items like User Interface and Orage are text only - no icons.

There are even applications that don't work - like networkmanager. I cant use that now because my current theme set doesn't have a nm-vpn-lock applet (or so the error message indicates).

Ok, so new icon set bad - old icon set good.

I went back in to Settings Manager and changed back to "rodent" and a default xfce window decoration. The icons are still missing and network manager still complains about a missing icon and wont start. I have found the missing icon and copied it in to the rodent directory structure, but it still complains.

I've gone as far as trying to update the icon cache:

[MandM]

Ok, this is really odd. I've completely uninstalled xfce. I then reinstalled it, reinstalled the x11 theme packages and there are still missing icons!

I'm seeing that xfce is the unknown wasteland. I've even posted on the xfce forums... and no one has a clue!
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Mr. M