I love 8.0 BUT can't get my desktop settings to persist

I am very pleased overall with the 8.0 package. It has fixed some dogging problems from the last couple of releases for me. I do have a problem and that is that I can spend an hour tweaking my KDE desktop to where I am happy, reboot and the changes are gone. This has never happened before (back to Suse 5.x) Obviously this is a major pain. Is there some new configuration switcch I have not seen? Specifically, any background graphics I put up go away, any changes to fonts on the desktop go away. Icons I put on the desktop stay but buttons I add to the taskbar go away. Actually, I believe, even changes to the font setting in Konsole go away. SOUNDS like a missing config file somewhere. Any ideas? Scott