Kubuntu instability...

[Steven Pasternak]

>> I get seg faults fairly regularly, mainly with Konqueror. OpenOffice Base
>> is a regular crasher with seg faults, and on "recovery" I always lose the
>> changes since the last successful save.
>>     
Hmmm. Sounds to me like hardware (ram or cpu maybe) You could try dual 
booting some other linux (I myself would consider windoze just adding to 
the problem), or running memtest86+ for a while.