KDE 3.1.2 keeps loosing BE keyboard settings

I'm using a Belgian AZERTY keyboard layout. For some reason KDE keeps loosing the keyboard settings, apperently reverting to French AZERTY instead of Belgian AZERTY. This is very annoying because the "greater then" and "smaller then" keys are not in the ususal place. I used YaST2 to set the keyboard to Belgian and that seems to work for the (pure) consoles but not for KDE applications or consoles in Konsole. ???