With RH 6.2 anyway the easiest way is "switchdesk kde"
before you startx.  I hosed my desktop settings a bunch of
times before I found out about that one.

Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> actually turns out it was the pcmcia stuff.  I upgraded it with the tarball to
> try and solve one problem.  Ended up re-installing RH6.0 to fix the problem.  I
> tried to remove the new pcmcia stuff and reinstall the version that came with
> RH6 to no avail.  Oh well, it works again.  Now just need to figure out how to
> get rid of Gnome and go back to KDE.

-- 
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less
traveled by.
Now I'm eating bugs and berries, and if the park ranger
doesn't find
me soon I'm a dead man.