This is still hosed up. It appears that the broke is in KDE. I can create a new account and to make it unusable all I have to do is go to KDE Control Center, Theme Manager, click on default theme and the account is no longer usable. IE. goes to la la land and never returns. I will be loading SuSE 9.0 Pro as the fix and hope it works (laptop Dell 8200 w/ Nvidia).