OK...what the heck happened to my install??...must of happened with the new updates...check this out
david@acowboydave:~$ /usr/bin/compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0611 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x960) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Backend : gconf
Integration : true
Profile : default
Adding plugin showdesktop (showdesktop)
Adding plugin showmouse (showmouse)
Adding plugin gears (gears)
Adding plugin ezoom (ezoom)
Adding plugin ring (ring)
Adding plugin shelf (shelf)
Adding plugin minimize (minimize)
Adding plugin firepaint (firepaint)
Adding plugin mag (mag)
Adding plugin crashhandler (crashhandler)
Adding plugin inotify (inotify)
Adding plugin fakeargb (fakeargb)
Adding plugin opacify (opacify)
Adding plugin addhelper (addhelper)
Adding plugin png (png)
Adding plugin reflex (reflex)
Adding plugin wall (wall)
Adding plugin workarounds (workarounds)
Adding plugin screenshot (screenshot)
Adding plugin glib (glib)
Adding plugin colorfilter (colorfilter)
Adding plugin freewins (freewins)
Adding plugin neg (neg)
Adding plugin atlantis (atlantis)
Adding plugin scalefilter (scalefilter)
Adding plugin photo (photo)
Adding plugin notification (notification)
Adding core settings (General Options)
Adding plugin scale (scale)
Adding plugin 3d (3d)
Adding plugin loginout (loginout)
Adding plugin scaleaddon (scaleaddon)
Adding plugin winrules (winrules)
Adding plugin cubeaddon (cubeaddon)
Adding plugin clone (clone)
Adding plugin bicubic (bicubic)
Adding plugin group (group)
Adding plugin session (session)
Adding plugin shift (shift)
Adding plugin mousepoll (mousepoll)
Adding plugin zoom (zoom)
Adding plugin animation (animation)
Adding plugin extrawm (extrawm)
Adding plugin video (video)
Adding plugin blur (blur)
Adding plugin workspacenames (workspacenames)
Adding plugin water (water)
Adding plugin wobbly (wobbly)
Adding plugin splash (splash)
Adding plugin tile (tile)
Adding plugin fs (fs)
Adding plugin text (text)
Adding plugin dodge (dodge)
Adding plugin maximumize (maximumize)
Adding plugin svg (svg)
Adding plugin anaglyph (anaglyph)
Adding plugin mblur (mblur)
Adding plugin mswitch (mswitch)
Adding plugin fadedesktop (fadedesktop)
Adding plugin cube (cube)
Adding plugin snow (snow)
Adding plugin snowglobe (snowglobe)
Adding plugin bench (bench)
Adding plugin put (put)
Adding plugin widget (widget)
Adding plugin regex (regex)
Adding plugin expo (expo)
Adding plugin screensaver (screensaver)
Adding plugin dbus (dbus)
Adding plugin thumbnail (thumbnail)
Adding plugin resize (resize)
Adding plugin switcher (switcher)
Adding plugin rotate (rotate)
Adding plugin wallpaper (wallpaper)
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Adding plugin resizeinfo (resizeinfo)
Adding plugin move (move)
Adding plugin place (place)
Adding plugin trailfocus (trailfocus)
Adding plugin imgjpeg (imgjpeg)
Adding plugin vpswitch (vpswitch)
Adding plugin snap (snap)
Adding plugin annotate (annotate)
Adding plugin fade (fade)
Adding plugin bs (bs)
Initializing core options...done
Initializing ezoom options...done
Initializing text options...done
Initializing svg options...done
Initializing decoration options...done
Starting gtk-window-decorator
Initializing move options...done
Initializing place options...done
Initializing imgjpeg options...done
Initializing reflex options...done
Initializing shift options...done
Initializing animation options...done
Initializing wobbly options...done
Initializing cube options...done
Initializing rotate options...done
Initializing 3d options...done
WoW...