I've shot my panel into oblivion I don't remember exactly how but was fooling around with it a little, pushing it to the left or right when the cat jumped on my lap and the next thing I knew was that the panel was gone

Here's the things I've tried to convince it to come back:

1) open a new panel but all the widgets are marked as being used already so I know that the old is flying around somewhere in KDE cyberspace
2) checked the whole ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-* files for "panel" content and changed panelVisibility in plasma-desktoprc (the only one which had a reference to panels) from 0 to1
3) restarted KDE and hoped for the best

But, alas, my panel is still in hiding. Any ideas what else I could try?

Many thanks in advance.

this is what I think (and I am just guessing)

You want plasma-desktop-appletsrc, not plasma-desktoprc

The panel is a containment, you have at least 2 - the desktop and the panel

I'd look at the section with:

[Containments][2]
activity=
activityId=
desktop=-1
formfactor=2
geometry=0,-57,1282,51
immutability=1
lastDesktop=-1
lastScreen=0
location=4
plugin=panel
screen=0
zvalue=0

lmk

google's done it again! I don't know how you do it

Anyway, the offending bit of code was

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activity=
activityId=e857a034-580a-4a32-a6f2-3103e41cbe90
desktop=-1
formfactor=2
geometry=0,-2936,0,42
immutability=1
lastDesktop=-1
lastScreen=0
location=3
plugin=panel
screen=0
zvalue=0

So I put the values of google's post in there and hey presto, the panel was back again. For completeness' sake the stanza at the time of writing:

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[Containments][125]
ActionPluginsSource=Global
activity=New Activity
activityId=
desktop=-1
formfactor=2
geometry=0,-4414,1778,34
immutability=1
lastDesktop=-1
lastScreen=0
location=3
plugin=panel
screen=0
zvalue=0