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In Mageia Cauldron, the application launcher menu appears sometimes at the bottom of the screen, sometimes at the top. It seems to change with each update. Is there a setting to lock this?

Strange behavior indeed.
The only thing i can think of is the option "Lock Widgets", by right-clicking in the desktop.

Thanks, but I can't move it to lock it in place. Widgets were locked when it was at the bottom. In addition, when the menu is at the top and I open the panel for editing ("unlock widgets" then "panel settings",) the panel "window" appears at the top of the screen, instead of just above the panel. For a while, I thought it was an extra panel, Gnome-style, but it is the dialog for the panel at the bottom.

Just a shot in the dark:
did you try removing the panel, and following create a new one.

The standard KDE fix -- renaming my .kde4 directory and allowing a new one to be created -- seems to have put the menu back where it belongs.