9.3 slow downs :(

I've upgraded my 9.1 to 9.3 and have noticed a marked slowdown (135 messages in Evolution now takes close to 25 minutes to retrieve on DSL, konqueror requires over 1 minute to come up on the screen). I did a new install for / with reiser 3.6 (default) and maintained my /home/* with reiser 3.5. KDE is also slow to load as well. Someone mentioned possible conflicts causing slowdowns in 9.3, how do I check if this is the case? Mike