Andreas Stieger wrote:

> Mothra2@mailinator.com wrote:
>
>> My zypper dissapeared from the tray this morning. There was an area
>> wide outage of the connection from my ISP for a couple of hours.
>> When it came back online,
>> I noticed that there was no zypper symbol in the tray as it usually
>> is.
>> Even re-booting did not bring it back. it still shows in user/bin/
>> zypper.
>>
>> How do I restore it to its usual place in the tray?
>
> I doubt that it's zypper, because that is a CLI tool.
> Maybe you mean opensuseupdater-kde? Hit ALT-F2 and enter that.
>
> regards,
> Andreas

Problem solved!

I went into YAST, and the only opensuse-updater-kde listed was for
KDE4, so I "assumed" that it did not apply to KDE 3.5.9, which I am
using. After trying KDE 4.1, I became so frustrated that I deleted
everything that said KDE4 en mass. However, I went back into YAST and
installed it anyway, and after re-booting the updater symbol came up
as before. I even had a few updates waiting for me.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. :-)

Godzilla