First - something doesn't quite add up as you've described When in a flashback compiz session here & the profile is 'unity' then I get a unity launcher & no panel indicators, you don't seem to have that? Anyway, the only way I found to switch back to Default profile other than doing in ccsm (though again here the switch back in ccsm sticks thru a log out/in In ~/.local/share there are some files, delete - session_migration-gnome-fallback-compiz and for good measure - gsettings-data-convert Then do a restart (because I had nothing else used sudo reboot in a terminal
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