race condition on login between kopete and kontact

I have suse 10.1 and with both kde 3.5.1 and now kde 3.5.4 I seem to have a race condition. When I log in both kontact and kopete appear to get stuck trying to request access to my wallet for the passwords. If I kill one of the processes then the wallet password dialog appears and then I can start the other successfully. Anyone else seeing this or know how to fix it? Andrew