Penguinbait: I downloaded your dotkde tar and -- PERHAPS? -- installed it correctly. Now when I boot, I still get the KDE Panel Crash Handler Screen, and when I close that my desktop now shows an icon that wasn't there before, labeled ".directory" (I'm not certain about the dot). When I click on that I get a small screen named "kwrite - KDialog" that says " Will not save configuration/Configuration/file /home/user/kde/share/config/kwriterc/not writeable." When I click OK on that screen, it disappears and then lets me get into Konqueror when I click on Home.

As a further comment to your most recent postings in this thread, I have never yet had my installed KDE crash or automatically reboot on me. I also have not reflashed to the new operating system, nor at this time intend to.

I don't know if any of the above is of any use to you.