how to show menus as menus in the application laucher of the panel?

Hi,

how do you make it so that menus in the starter of the panel
show as menus as they used to?  I thought the menu definitions
must have become messed up but kmenuedit still shows them as
menus as they are supposed to show.  I added my own menus and
submenus, and of course I want them to show as menus and submenus
and not everything in a chaotic list.  Somehow the panel/starter
must have been made worse.