I'm not sure if this has been noted but it seems there is also a real bug here (not just difference of opinion) in that every time light-themes is updated it reverts the user's setting in gconf. So even if you do change the button order back as soon as light-themes updates it will change it back. I assume the change to make the button order only apply to light-themes will also fix that.
You can also use the following to reset the button order:
I'm not sure if this has been noted but it seems there is also a real bug here (not just difference of opinion) in that every time light-themes is updated it reverts the user's setting in gconf. So even if you do change the button order back as soon as light-themes updates it will change it back. I assume the change to make the button order only apply to light-themes will also fix that.
You can also use the following to reset the button order:
gconftool-2 -u /apps/metacity/ general/ button_ layout