Panel problems on F10

[GN]

Hi Folks,

I have just upgraded to F10 and I have run into a pretty basic problem 
that I cannot seem to fix.

I have a panel at the top of the screen that I cannot add anything to 
nor can I remove. I have managed to confine it to only one desktop by 
clicking on the round icon at the left. There is a little box with a 
left pointing arrow that says menu with the mouse over it but clicking L 
or R elicits no action. To the right of the round icon is the text 'Top 
Panel'. It is quite large and setting it to autohide still leaves quite 
a blank white strip at the top of the screen.

Can some kind soul please tell me how I can get this panel working or 
remove it.

Ta.

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Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
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Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/)
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