Nvidia's (beta)180.06 driver solves panel flickering problem with KDE 4 + OO

Using Open office in KDE 4 triggers panel flickering / ugly looking panel. But the recently released Nvidia beta driver 180.06 (released Nov. 14, 2008) solved this longstanding problem. Now I am a happy and satisfied KDE 4 user. The link to the installers for x86 and x86_64 architectures are here and here. Here's a screenshot.