KDE loses settings on restart

[Will Maier <willmaier@gmx.net>]

Hi all-

I searched through the archives looking for the answer to this one, and 
I was quite surprised to see it unasked, especially given the flurry of 
upgrades to 3.2.1 in the last few weeks. So here goes...

I upgraded my Knoppix3.3/Debian-Unstable KDE from 3.1.5 to 3.2.1 the 
other day using the new .debs in apt. Things went quite well, except I 
had to force install of kdelibs to satisfy a dependency (as per a 
suggestion). Things have been running fine, except for that each time I 
exit KDE and restart x, I need to reconfigure my desktop. Sometimes the 
backgrounds are remembered and I just have to specify colors, icon size 
and panel appearance, but often I need to also place icons in the panel 
again and reconfigure its layout.

This is rather frustrating, and I'm not sure where to start. 3.1.5 had 
no problem keeping track of changes I made. I've paged through the 
Control Center, but I don't see any way to force it to save my setup.

Thanks for any help!
Will Maier