Ubuntu Me Menu not behaving - and I filed a bug on it

Here's the text of my original bug plus a clarifying, subsequent post:

Under my login name in the upper panel, the box where you can update your status via Gwibber without opening Gwibber itself only appears during the session in which I go into Gwibber and add a social-networking account. I log out, then log back in and that bar disappears. If I add an additional social-networking account, the bar reappears for that session only. The only way to make the bar reappear is to add a social-networking account in Gwibber.

I just want to clarify: After adding a social-networking account during the session, then logging out and back in, the social bar returns. But after a reboot, I start Gwibber, it shows my social-networking accounts, which I can update via the Gwibber application, but I can't use the social bar in the Me Menu because that bar doesn't appear. Again, the only way to make it reappear is to add another social-networking account to Gwibber.

Possible contributing factors to this bug are that I changed my password once. As part of this process, I deleted my GNOME keyring keys because they carried the old password. Now that the Gwibber passwords are back in my current keyring, I don't have to enter a password to use Gwibber. But I still can't get the social bar.

I deleted my GNOME keyring data because after my password change, I was constantly being prompted to enter my old password whenever a keyring-connected service was started.

I'm not completely sure that the password change and/or keyring deletion is/are responsible for my Me Menu problem, but that little social bar is a great feature on the Lucid GNOME desktop, and I hate to lose it. I'd almost do a reinstall of Ubuntu to get the feature back (and start out with my favored password).

The fact that you can't change your password and have your keyring password change with it (or have the option of changing that keyring password without deleting the keys) is a bit of a fail for GNOME, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was the cause of my MeMenu issues. I also wouldn't be surprised if it had absolutely nothing to do with it.