KDE issue

[MHeinrich@genencor.com]

I am running Mandrake 9.1 and KDE 3.???  KDE does not seem to be running 
correctly.  What do I mean?  The kicker bar at the bottom is not there, it 
takes longer than 10 minutes to go from log in screen to finish logging 
in.  When I switch into command line mode (Alt-cntrl-F1) and log in as 
root, I get this error message:

<1> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 8214b2e8
printing eip:
c0152532
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
sg st sr_mod sd_mod scsi_mod ide-cd cdrom floppy printer af_packet 
nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp850 vfat fat
supermount 3c59x usb=ohci usbcore snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 
snd-rawmidi snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-page-alloc snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-seq-device snd-dwdep snd 
soundcore
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c0152532>]  Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010287
EIP is at d_lookup+0x62/0x110 [kernel]
eax:  c214b2e8  ebx:  8214b2e8  exc:0000000d    edx:  c2140000
esi:  8214b2d8  edi:  c10029ab  ebp:  c2035eb4  esp:  c2035e90
ds:  0018       es:  0018       ss:  0018
Process python (pid: 6807, stackpage=c0ce1000)
Stack: c1f69013 8214b268 c214b2e8 c1f69023 c10029ab 
 "whole bunch of other addresses?"
Call Trace:
[<c01496c1>] cached_lookup+0x11/0x60 [kernel]
[<c0149c77>] link+path_walk+0x397/0x6b0 [kernel]
[<c014a119>] path_lookup+0x29/0x30 [kernel]
[<c014a362>] __user_walk+0x32/0x50 [kernel]
[<c014693e>] vfs_stat+0x1e/0x90 [kernel]
[<c0146ef4>] sys_stat64+0x14/0x30 [kernel]
[<c0137c64>] kmem_cach_free+0x14/0x30 [kernel]
[<c013f2d2>] sys_open+0x72/0x90 [kernel]
[<c0109093>] system_call+0x33/0x40 [kernel]

Code: 8b 1b 39 7e 44 75 e7 8b 45 08 39 46 0c 75 df 8b 40 4c 85 c0

I have no idea what this means or how it relates to me KDE problem.  Any 
suggestions on how to trouble shoot this issue would be greatly 
appreciated.
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