GNOME 2.10 - almost

I decided upgrade to GNOME 2.10 on my desktop PC. I made a mistake by not removing 2.8 first so I had a few problems when 2.10 started. One was the splash screen became part of the desktop background. So, I decided to do a "pacman -Rc gnome" to remove it, then do a "pacman -S gnome" to add it. That worked, sort of. Gnome would crash right after logging in and told me to check the .xsession-errors file. So I did. After gnome-session executes, the next line gave an error relating to libgnome-keyring.so.0. Well, somehow, I got to the desktop after tinkering a bit. Now, the desktop appears, with errors, then loads with generic icons and the menus show all the KDE stuff. The core of the errors says "....settings daemon restarted too many times..." then a few warnings come up about applets or icons or something. Well I searched a bit and others have had those same problems too. However, very few solutions were offered and the ones I tried didn't work. I deleted everything in tmp and everything gnome-related in my home directory. I'm sick of fussing with it now. Looks like I'll be using KDE or WindowMaker for a while.