just tried to fire up gparted to see if i can use it to resurrect some USB sticks. it has always required me to start it from the commandline, even though i have the box checked to prompt me for my password. anyway, at the commandline it now throws this error:

[kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'gpartedbin-gtk-tqt-application' crashing...

any guesses?