Well it's goodbye Gnome.  I was reluctant to use kde as my default 
anything because previous versions were a little bloated.  I already had 
kde 3.2 installed but rarely used it.  After seeing all the functunality 
that kde file manager has I think its going to be my default desktop now 
as well.  And if anyone knows of any services I might be able to disable 
in kde that won't affect system wide performance I would greatly 
appreciate it.

Thanks for the help

John