logout delay + odd behavior

["Nate Mayotte" <nmayotte charter net>]

When I click to logout of gnome it doesn't do anything for 
like 3-4 minutes until the confirmation box appears.  If I 
then goto cancel and click to logout again the 
confirmation box appears right away.
I moved all the .gnome files in my home dir to a sub 
directory to see if gnome would recreate the config file 
correctly.  Well, it mostly did, except that there were no 
buttons on the taskbar, but then after about a minute or 
two it started flashing between the empty taskbar and one 
with all the proper buttons. 

I have to manually start rpc.statd and rpc.lockd before 
logging in.  Otherwise if give me some nfs error.  For 
some reason putting both those in /etc/rc.d/boot.local 
doesn't work.
For a little background information, all the problems 
started happening after upgrading some of my client 
machines from suse 8.1 to 8.2.  The home directories are 
stored on a server running suse 8.1.