Gdesklets and xfce-4.2

I wanted gDesklets to start with xfce, and I also wanted to get rid of the panel, so I went ahead and killed the panel, started gDesklets, and logged out, electing to save my session.  When I started xfce again, no panel, but no gDesklets either.  I'm starting xfce with a startx, so I thought I'd try adding 'gdesklets' to my .xinitrc, but that had no effect.  xfce-session keeps a file in .cache representing the most recently saved session, so I took a look at it, and saw this near the end:
Client5_ClientId=117f000001000110796966500000070590000
Client5_Hostname=local/punkgoth
Client5_CloneCommand=/opt/gnome/bin/gdesklets,--sm-config-prefix,/gDesklets-2cQSfH/,start
Client5_CurrentDirectory=/
Client5_Program=gDesklets
Client5_RestartCommand=/opt/gnome/bin/gdesklets,--sm-config-prefix,/gDesklets-2cQSfH/,--sm-client-id,117f000001000110796966500000070590000,--screen,0,start
Client5_UserId=codera
PS: As I was typing this, I realized that for every other app in that file, _Program is the same as the command used to start it, so I'm going to try a symlink from /path/to/gDesklets to /path/to/gdesklets.
EDIT: The above didn't work, any help is appreciated.

Xfce will start up any programs that appear in ~/Desktop/Autostart.
Well, that seemed to work.  Thanks.
However, I'm still using "startxfce4", not "startx".
Why did you switch your xinit startup?
I run 'startx', but that really just starts X and runs .xinitrc.  My .xinitrc looks like this:
exec startxfce4

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