KDE4 Mouse Click Problem

I am having a really strange problem with KDE4. I was previously running openSUSE11.0/KDE3/KDE4.1.1(?) on my Dell laptop. (Intel mobo / Intel915 Graphics)

KDE4 was nice and pretty. Then I upgraded to KDE4.1.3. Now - when I log into KDE4, the mouse moves the cursor around, but the desktop/kicker/menu bar is unresponsive to any mouse clicking. I can use keyboard <ALT+F2> to bring up applications, and type/click/etc inside of application windows, but the desktop is simply not responding.

I thought maybe I messed something up, so I recently installed 11.1. I still have the same problem. I even tried logging on as other user (root, test) and the same problem exists.

Has anyone else seen or heard of this problem? I would reallly like to use KDE4, but it is currently unusable for my laptop.

Thanks for any suggestions.