Right on! Glad you like it. Have you noticed that rox is even mentioned in the splash screen? Perhaps you could post your tips on using gnome-panel w/ XFCE4? Post your config files?

If you like to use deskmenu:

apt-get install deskmenu
touch ~/Desktop/Autostart/deskmenu.sh
echo "deskmenu -f /etc/deskmenurc.debian" > /Desktop/Autostart/deskmenu.sh
chmod +x ~/Desktop/Autostart/deskmenu.sh

(You may want to specify your own button for deskmenu w/ the -b option).

Obviously ~/Desktop/Autostart is where you put anything you want to run on login as well. I also launch gdesklets from there.

champagnemojo what app is it that you're using to display cpu temp et. al.? A frontend for mbmon?