A couple months back I migrated to a new machine. I used the same CD to install Kubuntu as on my previous machine, Kubuntu 12.04.

In queue manager, I do not see buttons for filtering the view to display only files for downloading or uploading. The 4 buttons for moving files up and down the queue are present as is the Find button to make the text bar appear and type in a specific or partial file name that will appear in bold in the list.

Is there an option I need to set in Preferences?

nudge

Please check that the same versions of KDE are being used - you could have upgraded from a PPA or installed updates which added these features.

I had to let this go for a while and am just getting back to it.

I have compared the two computers. The versions of Kubuntu and KTorrent are the same. If a PPA or update installed these features, it is not something I consciously changed. To my recollection on the old system, these buttons were on the interface from the time I installed Kubuntu and started Ktorrent fresh. Any and all updates to Ktorrent came through the Muon Package Manager.

I checked and these buttons are not a plugin that comes with KTorrent, nor can I find a resource on the web that offers it in the off chance I did download the plugin and don't remember.

Scratching my head wondering why one installation can have nuances over another.

just for clarification these are the buttons you're missng?

are the themes & icons used the same on both machines?

if you create a new user on the new machine do the buttons appear?

Yes! Those are the buttons in question.

Both computers use the same system wide theme of Oxygen.

Trying your suggestion of creating a new user and logging in on those credentials yielded that the buttons/icons do not appear. Which only seems to deepen the question of why I am getting different results from the installation of the same software on two machines.

Puzzling.

I think you have something is missing it the button left side of your screen.