Lubuntu and panels

[Joep L. Blom]

Hi,
I've been experimenting Lubuntu - after honestly trying standard 11.10 - 
and I like it rather well.
However, I have a small annoying problem that my taskbar is only visible 
in desktop 2 and not in 1 - as I think is normal.
Does anybody where the settings for placing the taskbar (which is called 
a panel) is placed.
I also have created a second panel, placed it above to show the active 
applications (using the applet menu) but I cannot remove it from the 
taskbar.
I would be pleased as I think Lubuntu 11.10 is a faster and better GUI 
than Unity (please don't react in the latter!!).
Joep