KDE3 broken

[Jonathan Stickel]

KDE3 is broken for me since recently upgrading to Macports 1.7. 
Everything installs fine, but no kde application will start.  Among many 
messages, I see (e.g. when trying kwrite):

KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = kwrite path = <unknown> pid = 8226

Any ideas?  I am a heavy user of kde apps, especially konqueror for file 
  management.  I am using Tiger (10.4.11).

Thanks,
Jonathan