how to show menus as menus in the application laucher of the panel?

[hw]

Hi,

how do you make it so that menus in the starter of the panel
show as menus as they used to?  I thought the menu definitions
must have become messed up but kmenuedit still shows them as
menus as they are supposed to show.  I added my own menus and
submenus, and of course I want them to show as menus and submenus
and not everything in a chaotic list.  Somehow the panel/starter
must have been made worse.