NM Password Problem

[Petrus de Calguarium]

NetworkManager works fine, except...

In Gnome, a window pops up, asking for my password, which then connects 
the wireless internet. In KDE, as root, the same occurs, but in KDE, as me, 
that window does not show up. Instead, a different window, namely the one 
that asks the type of wireless security and the actual passphrase of the 
wireless router (I think this is the wpa_supplicant window) shows up.

It all used to work, right up until about a week ago, when I started having 
to enter the wireless passphrase instead of my... uh, what is it, security 
password for pam? for who knows what? that NM uses.

I have ksshaskpass installed and linked in .kde/Autostart, if that is 
significant.