2.24.3 Daemons?

[Frank Jahnke]

I am in the midst of a clean install of Gnome 2.24.3, xorg 7.4 and
7-STABLE (i386) on an old computer.  I am unable to alter menu items
from the System -> Administration menu if I start the following daemons
in rc.conf:

dbus_enable="YES"
avahi_daemon_enable="YES"
avahi_dnsconfd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

However, if I use gnome_enable instead then I can access the Admin menu
items.

It would seem that I am missing a daemon.  Am I?  If so, which one?

Frank