EEE PC, xfce-power-manager causing panel problems. [Solved}

Hi, just installed fresh on my asus eeee pc. The most annoying thing was happening the notifications popping up from xfce power manager (the little battery icon by the clock) was causing the all the applets to slide to the left and eventually get pushed off the screen.
I solved this by :
sudo apt-get remove xfce-power-manager
sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager

then edit the autostart.sh, remove xfce-power-manager and use gnome-power-manager.

Hope this helps, as it makes the system pretty unusable with that happening.