I tried other Window managers and they come up quickly without a problem. KDE takes at least 5 minutes to start up each time, but then it appears to be fine. It seems to get stuck on "initializing system configuration". Is there a debug switch I can use to figure out where it's getting stuck? I tried as a couple of different users and they all have the same problem.

No wireless.
There are Windows partitions - (the user is a former Windows user looking to switch)