after upgrading xp pro sp2 machine to dopus 9, everything else appears to work fine but these 2 control panel icons do nothing
Confirmed. I've filed a bug report.
Lots of other ways to open Prefs/Customize, luckily. (Or unluckily as that's probably why nobody noticed it got broken in the betas.)
This is fixed in Opus 9.0.0.1:[ul][li]...[/li]
[li] The Opus control panel applets now work correctly[/li]
[li]...[/li][/ul]Full list of changes here: [Directory Opus 9.0.0.1)