OK. 30 minutes after starting Konqueror, it popped up!!
After initiating Konqueror, I had time to come to this website. Try to post. Had to recover my password. Wait for the Kde-Forum email to arrive. Log back in after the email came back. Make my post. Got back to work and all of a sudden Pow!, Konqueror pops up.
Don't know either why or how, but it works.
Chalk this one up to the computer gods and Murphy's Law, I guess. "The car never starts until you call the mechanic".
Cheers!