Problem with Add/Remove Applications -- will not complete

[Michael Cagle <MichaelCagle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an HP Pavillion a430n with an AMD AthlonXP 3200+ processor and 
1.25 gigabytes of memory. When I click on Start->System 
Settings->Add/Remove Applications the "Checking System Status" dialog 
box moves quickly to about 1/3 complete then stalls. When I use top from 
the command line, I see that python continues to grow. It ran 4 hours 
yesterday and python grew to 1.4 gigabytes before I stopped it. I have 
an install of FC4T3 that has all packages installed. It has been updated 
daily. "uname -a" returns the following:
Linux CagleUX.MichaelCagle.com 2.6.11-1.1381_FC5 #1 Thu Jun 9 20:56:43 
EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike