abrt isn't catching crashes

[Michael Cronenworth]

I have a Gnome Shell bug[1] that I noticed was not being caught by abrt 
so I tried to purposely crash other Fedora apps. They are not being 
caught either. The abrt GUI doesn't seem to have any on/off switch and I 
know I have not purposely disabled it (and it is running in the 
background). Any ideas on why abrt isn't working?

Fedora 16 box
abrt-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
abrt-addon-ccpp-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
abrt-addon-python-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
abrt-addon-vmcore-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
abrt-desktop-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
abrt-gui-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
abrt-libs-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
abrt-retrace-client-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754997