Problem with Alacarte

[Danny Richardson]

I am having a problem trying to add a selection to the applications/system 
menu using Alacarte. I am trying to add gdebi. I find it listed in the
menu editor's (Alacarte) system tools listings. I click the check box, but 
after closing Alacarte and looking in Applications/System Tools menu the
program is not listed/shown.

It had been suggest to me that I try entering "killall gnome-panel" from 
the command line, but that didn't work. (Did notice that the screen
blinked). Afterwards I ran Alacarte repeated my previous steps with the 
same results I had previously.  (The program was
not listed on the System Tools menu.)

Also, running Alacarte again and noted that the check box that I had 
previously checked was unchecked.

I new to Ubuntu and I sure I'm having some cockpit problems here. Can some 
please help me out?

Danny