KAudioCreator creating corrupted .wav files?

I'm using KAudioCreator (v1.0 on KDE 3.2.3) to rip a bunch of cds and encode them as ogg vorbis files. I'm running SUSE9.1 with KDE 3.2.3. Frequently, while ripping a disc it will rip several tracks and encode them fine, then it will start producing ogg files that are 24kb, instead of 2.3mb (or whatever). At this point, I can just rip any track to a wav file and use oggenc in a terminal window to encode it, but get the same result. I can try to rip it with GRIP and it takes forever for it to rip the track. If I use cdparanoia to rip the disc and oggenc to encode it, all from a terminal, it seems to work fine. The only solution is to reboot, maybe twice or more. It will be fine for a random number of discs.