I've stated my peace (piece) on this. I have to return to working on other things. Thanks for listening. Healthy debate is what makes this community work. FWIW, I went into Settings->Desktop and played with DE settings. All the DEs work, but my folderview is extremely slow, almost to the point it freezes my machine. I'm hoping this isn't the case with KDE4.2 I'll revist the issue after its released. Cheers.