VNC issues on suse 9.2

I'm having a problem running VNC on SuSE 9.2 with xorg 6.8.2 and KDE 3.4. I've tried enabling VNC through Yast and sax2. VNC is running, and I can connect to the server, but kdm login screen never shows up. I get the X cursor but all that is ever displayed is the grey background before kdm. Eventually the session will disconnect. After successful authentication over the java web gui, vnc does the same thing, grey screen, no kdm. I've tried recompiling xorg 6.8.2 from source but this hasn't cleared up the problem. I'm at a loss here as this is a fresh install. Any ideas? Thank you. Jake verified virus free by Usermail.com