I have received no responses. I am going to submit the new startkde (starttde) script through a bug report. I'm not sure how others are able to run TDE without the changes. Here things break real fast when I use the default script. :(
Do that please, perhaps it is worth considering in the next QA period for the upcoming release. It seems an appropriate time to test on a few distros.
Done as soon as I posted the last message. Bug report 675. I attached a full script rather than a patch.
Darrell