> I am not sure what I did... but when (as a user) I start konsole, it
> comes up and closes right away. It used to work fine, and it still
> works for root. Xterm and other terms work, it just seems to be
> konsole. When I start it from an xterm, there are no errors generated.
> Anyone have any ideas where I should start looking to track this down?

        Try deleting your ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc file and then 
starting Konsole again.
        :Peter