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I've already posted this in the Feedback forum, but it was thought this might be more of a redhat related issue. Here's the problem:
when I log into a KDE session, kalarmd launches imediately, and holds the CPU at maximum load. This slows the system down a bit, so I usually kill it as soon as I log in. The more troubling part of this problem is that NO KDE-native apps (KOffice, KFormula, KBounce, etc...) will run. They just hold the CPU at max load, just as kalarmd did.
System Specs:
Intel P4 @ 2.6GHz
RedHat Linux 9, Kernel 2.4.20-20.9, all packages fully updated (could this be it?)

also, I cannot launch the KDE apps from GNOME. The result is the same.

I probably should have mentioned in my first post, but not ALL KDE apps are broken. some, such as KWrite and Konqueror still work fine.

3rd party apps? relative to what? do you mean KDE-native apps that are distributed by someone else? I'm using a ditribution of Redhat that came with a book, Redhat Linux 9 Bible.
hmm the only thing i've had to reinstall was Xfree86... bu tI'm not even sure that's what triggered it. It could also have been a Redhat update (system's completely up2date!)
. My system was not in this state when I first installed everything, only recently.