inaccessible gnome preferences

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

I use debian's gnome orca.  I was trying to get sound playing after a 
successful login before orca starts talking.  One of the places I went was 
system->sounds->preferences->switches tab.  Very interesting about that 
switches tab.  All I heard as I tabbed up and down that list of checkboxes 
were the checkbox controls themselves and not the descriptive labels that 
go along with the checkboxes.  The sound themes control was a scroll pane 
as near as I could tell that had nothing on it.  I don't know if that is 
proper or not.