F12: 30 second freeze when accessing certain panel items ?

Mon Dec 14 03:36:37 UTC 2009

I'm running a KDE sesson on a fully up to date F12 system.

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec 9
11:00:30 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

$ rpm -q kdelibs
kdelibs-4.3.3-4.fc12.i686

My computer is freezing for ~30 seconds when I access various items in a
panel like the Weather Forecast and Calendar widgets. 

Is anyone else experiencing this ?

Thanks