kopete systray icon went missing

[O. Sinclair]

Using KDE 4.4.5 and Kopete 1.0 (it says...)

during too much fiddling with installations the systray icon for Kopete 
has gone missing. When I start Kopete I can see the icon quickly "flash" 
in the systray area but it then goes missing.

In the systray settings it is not shown as a notification/job that I can 
hide/show etc.

Anyone has any idea? Googling only gives info on old versions/problems 
relating to icons gone missing (that is the icon file itself).

Kind regards
Sinclair