KDE Panel Locks Up

[Nathaniel Hall]

Hey all,

I keep having problems with my panel in KDE locking up a lot.  It
happened a lot several weeks ago, so I reinstalled FC4.  It did great
for a while and now it has started to do it again.  I have rebooted
multiple times and that hasn't helped.  I am running kernel 2.6.11-1 and
kdebase 6:3.5.1-0.3.

What happens is when I go to right/left click on anything on the panel I
don't get a response for at least 2-3 minutes and usually it is more
around 5 minutes.  When it does respond, it will usually lock up again
where I can't get rid of the menu that I click on.  I am able to right
click on the desktop and work in applications fine, but it isn't easy
for me to open new apps.  Alt-Tab works fine for me to switch between
programs, but I can't click on it in the panel.

Does anybody have any ideas? 

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Nathaniel Hall, GSEC GCFW GCIA