[SOLVED] Xmobar won't display over app windows on Xmonad

Xmobar will not start automatically or display over top of application windows in Xmonad.  It does launch if I explicitly launch it from an xterm.  However, it only shows up on empty workspaces.  It doesn't matter if an application window was opened before or after the launching of xmobar.  It will always cover it up.
My relevent installed packages are xmobar, xmonad, xmonad-contrib, hsetroot, some gtk user applications, X, and the free ATI video drivers.  I've pastebin'd my bash_profile, .xinitrc, .xmonad.hs, and .xmobarrc.  I also included the output of pacman -S xmonad-contrib as it complained about some doc files missing.
.bash_profile:  http://pastebin.com/zAVt2jCa
.xinitrc: http://pastebin.com/HzCmvTgD
.xmonad.hs: http://pastebin.com/6vt7qK3m
.xmobarrc: http://pastebin.com/GqpXeuSc
pacman -S xmonad-contrib: http://pastebin.com/wtN2S533
I don't know any Haskell, and I'm an Arch n00b, so I've mostly gone off templates and some irc help.  So if there's anything utterly silly about my setup, let me have it. =P  Thanks for the help guys.
edit:  Just a thought:  When I was running Debian, I actually had the same exact problem.  However, I was using a completely different users xmonad.hs and xmobarrc.  At the time I chalked it up to gdm or nautilus or something from GNOME running in the background.  But since I'm having the same problem on an entirely different machine with an entirely differnet users config files and probably different versions of everything..  could it be video card related?
Last edited by drvladimirtzu (2012-09-29 07:57:16)

So it turns out, I had xmonad.hs as ~/.xmonad.hs not ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs...  Pretty embarassing.  But I'll resist the temptation to delete the thread in hopes someone gets a chuckle out of it.  In my defence, I did figure it out all on my own.

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