KDE theme help

[napalm]

Hello all.

I've been lurking for the past few days, and so far I'm learning a lot by=
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reading the archives. I've been having some trouble lately with KDE's the=
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manager and I was hoping someone could give some free advice.

I'm using KDE 3.0 under Mandrake 9.0, and I recently installed a theme fr=
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freshmeat to play around with. Now the problem is, I don't seem to be abl=
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UNinstall the damn thing. It also appears that all the themes that came=20
packaged with KDE don't work either.

The main issue seems to be that the KDE thememanager for whatever reason =
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not finding the *.kthemerc files. I can browse for those files through th=
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manager, and see the file in the directory, but every time I select the f=
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the thememanager says "Could not load theme". If I try and select an alre=
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installed theme in the list on the left, the message says "Theme does not=
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contain a .themerc nor a .theme file".

I checked on KDE's site, and did some other searches throughout the web, =
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didn't really find anything that described my problem.

Any ideas?