After upgrading to KDE 3.2 beta2 (from 3.1.4 and an older version of kopete) ... Kopete brings up an account window during startup which is blank (it's missing all of my accounts). At this time the password dialog for the kwallet pops up. Once I open the wallet, everything signs in just fine and works just fine.
If this is a known issue, my apologies.
Second, is there any way to make the single-click-> chat behavior on the contact list optional? I would prefer to double-click on a contact in the list to open a chat window. Too many times I want to select a person on the list and it ends up opening a chat window when I don't want it to (when I might otherwise want to view properties, etc).