I recently upgraded to SuSE 10.1 on my main desktop.  Running KDE 3.5.3 and my main e-mail client is Kontact.  However, since the upgrade, Kontact has become pretty much useless as it crashes everytime I try to switch from Mail to anything else (e.g. calendar, todo's, notes, summary, etc.).  Crashes when I exit (which is rare).  Also getting a crash whenever I try to sync an IMAP account.

Very frustrating.  I've submitted several bug reports with the backtraces attached to the KDE folks, but that is getting me nowhere (either they are too busy, can't really figure out what is wrong, or think the problem has been resolved?).  I've done some research on the 'net, but I have not found anything to help.

I'm thinking about trying to uninstall Kontact and then reinstall it.  I'm a bit concerned about losing my e-mails and everything else (I've backed them up, but worried about getting them imported back in).

Any suggestions? Thoughts? Hints?

Thanks!