Redhat has some very specific patches they apply to make KDE work with their freetype2 setups, custom library configurations, and such. Because of this any source build of KDE is usually buggy and ugly. The best way to do an install of KDE 3.2 on fedora is to check out
http://www.kde-forum.org/viewtopic.php?t=2037 that article and either do an apt, yum, or ftp install. All of the packages for those installs where built with modified Redhat SPEC files so the appropriate patches where applied.