Please, by all means, update GTK+. Lots of bugs have been fixed in the 2.4 series and still using 2.4.0 is sortof lightheaded.
Life is sort of slow with a 56K modem.
Updated gtk+, glib and atk. The problem remains
$pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0 2.4.4 $pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0 2.4.4
I guess that if no one else has this problem, it is a kde problem.
I know there is a kde-3.0.5 available for RH 8.0, but I doubt something as obscure has been fixed in such a small upgrade.
-Joseph