Stuck on a hot plug..

Things have been going great with my SuSE 8.1 Pro until I tried to import my old addressbook data to my new addressbook for kmail. Then I got a complete crash. But on a reboot I cannot get past this line: " starting hotplugging services [ net pci usb . . " I remember seeing a message about an addressbook problem and saved it but of course have not gotten around to doing backups. Also I remember seeing something about hotplug problems. Can anyone get me out of this or do I have to do a new install? Thanks.. Jack aa6vn@pacbell.net