Summary of not yet resolved problems

It has been a month, and I thought I should clean up a bit. It looks like many of the original problems were resolved/went away with the kernel update that fixed the kernel uninterruptible sleep problem, but others remain. Here is a summary of not sufficiently resolved issues

• KMail: the original problems (key bindings crashes on startup) were solved, but a new problem appeared. Now every so often KMail will refuse to display a message, showing it as empty. The only way to fix it is to close KMail and re-start again.
  
• Emacs: I removed (common-display-european 1), and this seems to have sped up the startup. But C-x x binding is still not working. I hadn't had time to look for fixes, though I
  
• Very slow YaST. I disabled automatic update on all repositories except for the "online update". This speeds things up, but not quite enough - the startup time is still 5 minutes or more. On the web there are recommendations on running a YaST cache defragmentation, but the bottom line is, it's extra bother, and it is just too slow. I can only hope that someone sees light and comes up with a better solution for 11.0
• iw2200 and NetworkManager: I solved the problem by inserting a line that explicitly loads ipw2200 module on startup into /etc/init.d/network. But this means that I will have to re-do it next time I update the system, unless the problem is solved in 11.0
• Hotkey-setup locking up the system on boot: as far as I know, not solved yet, though I should re-test it after the recent kernel updates
• System freezes on sleep: not re-tested yet