chrisak: This is something I was worried about. Even though you can put a minimum height and width in the desktop file for the applet it seems to ignore them. Especially the height. I am trying to find a way to eliminate that problem, but not having much luck. Do any of your other applets have this flaw?

If you unselect the applet and then reselect it, does it come back? What about unselecting, rebooting, and reselecting?