Applications dying randomly in KDE 3.3.2

Hi all, I am running KDE 3.3.2 on SuSE 9.2. Recently I noticed that applications abruptly just die, no error, the KDE crash handler doesn't show up and I didn't notice any correlation with keyboard, mouse or hard disk events. I have seen this happen with kmail, amarok and kdetv. The window just closes without warning. Has anybody else seen this? This is very disturbing and I hope limited to my instalation. Brana