Power Reset Button fails to display shutdown Dialog

I recently updated my kernel for redhat 6 Worskstation from 2.6.32-279.el6.i686 to 2.6.32-358.el6.i686. The problem that I noticed was that the Power reset button (Hardware Button) no longer activates the shutdown dialog GUI. When running acpid in the foreground (acpid -dl ) I do not see the expected event "button/power PWRB 00000080 00000002". There is an interesting note in the /etc/acpid/events/power.conf file.

(exert from power.conf file)

ACPID config to power down machine if powerbutton is pressed, but only id
no gnome-power-manager is running.

Implying that the acpid is not needed. To verify I stopped the service "service acpid stop" and compared the behavior of the 2 kernels. The result is the same, No shutdown dialog. I then proceeded to kill the gnome-power-manager and compared the two kernels, no shutdown GUI using either kernel.
I realize that this is just the front end for the desktop and reacts to events it receives.

The devkit-power (version 014) utility is the same on both systems and provides the same results.

Being new at this I would appreciate some guidance as to where to proceed from here in determining my problem
Any help is apreciated.
Joe