If you followed the fix posted by debernardis, then pehaps the same thing happened to you as to me. My menus were empty of items. If this is what you mean, then you could try the following in terminal (you may have to sudo, I don't recall):

cp /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu /home/user/.osso/menus/applications.menu

This seems to rebuild the menu, but most items ended up the extras menu for me, so you may have to go into the control panel to recategorize. The other strange thing is that a bunch of the preloaded games disappeared. Since I didn't play them it was no great loss.

However, it looks like a bunch of folks are having the same abiword menu propagation problem.