On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, you wrote:
  Other than that, I can't seem to get kmid working
again, even after
 uninstalling everything, including drumstick libs, and trying to
 rebuild the old static-drumstick version of kmid -- it fails in the
 same way. 
Try this command in a command line with your own user account:
$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
Regards,
Pedro