hfs related crashes

[nik gaffney <nik@xdv.org>]

hi,
 currently im having consistent (but erratic) problems reading from an hfs
partition using kmail. im not sure what the problem is, but quite often when
i try to access a mail folder which is symlinked to the hfs partition, i get
some nice blakc lines at the top of my screen + the system is completely
frozen (no xterm/console or ssh access). 

im using the 2.4.18-benh kernel, with hfs support compiled in (ive also had
the same probelms with hfs as a module) with kmail 1.3.2 (kde 2.2.2)

any ideas on how to improve this situation?+

 nk