Screwy Taskbar Sizes

[Kent Frazier]

Hello all.  I was just forced to reinstall Hoary after failing to
recover from some sort of insidious kernel panic.  The reinstall went
well (I used the Array 2 release).  After installing, I had to reboot
before gnome would cooperate and show my menus properly.  My sound
wasn't working, so I had to go in search of the problem (PC Speaker
was muted; shouldn't PC Speaker refer to the beepy system speaker?). 
Minor issues, and they all resolved fairly quickly.

The taskbar, however, is not giving proper room to the applications on
it.  If I have 6 apps open, they will all fit in a very tiny space
while most of the taskbar goes unused (see attached screenshots).  I
have been searching for a setting to change this behavior, but I
cannot find anything anywhere.  I have a feeling it is a setting
rather than a bug, but I can't figure out how to change it.  Anyone
out there know how I would do this?  Anyone else experiencing this
behavior?  I had noticed that Gnome did something like this before,
but to a much lesser degree.  Now it is affecting useability.  Please
help.

Kent
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