FWIW, for anybody else having this issue, attached is an as-needed restart script for 'kded' that seems to work. (less onerous than the powerdevil disabler script, 'kded' seems to be restartable w/o incident from what i can tell)
-- stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/
kded-restart.sh
Description: Bourne shell script