Well, read the title. Gnome SUSE 11.0 with all the patches I could find. Anything that attempts to call the standard Gnome open/save dialog (Firefox, openoffice, media players, xchat(for loading scripts), GIMP, Inkscape, everything.) hangs and eventually gets killed by me (it turns gray) I noticed that evolution was crashing when saving ym configuration for my mail accounts before this started happening. A thread in the Ubuntu forums suggested deleting all my nautilus bookmarks, but this worked for the person having the issue so I didn’t get other suggestions.
Now, for the part where I tell what I’ve figured out so far. This is NOT a RAM / installation media problem. This is somehow tied to my user account, because it works just fine in root. I’m pretty sure I’m in all the groups I need to be, so it shouldn’t be permissions. I believe I may have updated Nautilus before it started, and I may have changed compiz settings, though disabling compiz completely did not fix the issue. As I use my Linux install for productivity, this is a crippling issue. I suppose I could make a new account, is there any way for me to import home directory and settings? I’m running a custom gnome theme if it matters.