OK, I should've expected that as soon as I said that all was well with
my KDE3 install, something would void that statement.
I started up my KDE3 desktop last night as I occasionally restart KDE to
update menus etc.  When It had fully loaded, the background was blue. 
The same blue as the KDE start-up blue.  I opened the KDE Control panel
and it said that the background was set to what it should be.  In
addition to this blue bg, all my desktop icons are hidden.  I checked my
ps auwwx for a stray/unaccountable process that could be this blue
monster but nothing.

I have not yet tried restarting X/KDE but I figured I'd just post this
first.

P.S. I did not actually change anything before the KDE restart.  I just
wanted to see the extent of KDE3.0.2's session reloading ability.

 
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