technical problems with kde and debian (loading of libs fail)

Hi all, I've got following problem: when I try to launch kde it fails complaining about missing libraries. I've installed kde using .debs from ftp.kde.org and qt 1.41 from a .deb from ftp.funet.fi (a mirror of ftp.debian.org). Any kde users here who could illuminate the situation? Lots of thanks

slightly odd behaviour of X for a newbie and a request for help in configuring xdm

I did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and slink is great! Except for the fact that it did some wierd things for my X. First off I couldn't get it to work at all and after uninstalling and re-installing + some symlinking the Xserver started to run. Now my problem is that I can run X as roo