Gnome Control Center broken

[Ivan Uemlianin <i a uemlianin celtic co uk>]

Dear All

I recently updated some of my Gnome 1.4 packages; now the Gnome Control 
Center is not working.  I'm running control-center-1.4.0.1-35
The Gnome Control Centre now has no pages.  The GUI pops up in response 
to selecting it from the Gnome menu; the sections tree is down the left 
hand side, but the right hand side which should contain the dialogues 
remains empty whatever section I select.
Any leads appreciated.

* Background

I am currently running Gnome 1.4 on SuSE 7.2.

I recently uninstalled the rpms for, and installed the source for:

            rpm        source
gdk-pixbuf  ?          0.14.0
gnome-vfs   ?          1.0.3
libxml      1.8.11-53  1.8.16
oaf         0.6.5-30   0.6.7

I did './configure --prefix="/opt/gnome" ' for each, as SuSE puts GNOME 
in /opt.
Best wishes

Ivan Uemlianin