btw after having and seeing on this forum a bunch of problems with slack9.1 and kde 3.2.x, i gave up and got dropline gnome, and ive never looked back (especially since, if you have kde installed, kde progs work fine in gnome - except all ugly and fat, but thats just kde).
http://www.dropline.net/gnome/ if you want it. the install is so simple, and it worked perfectly afterwards.