Fedora logoff/shutdown times and other issues

[Richard Hubbard]

Being a cautious person, I recently installed Fedora Core 1 on a test 
machine.

For someone already comfortable with Red Hat, I felt right at home.  
However I have two issues that I wonder if someone has already seen and 
addressed.

First, From a graphical login, when I try to shutdown or logoff, it 
seems to be an amazingly long time before anything happens.  Does anyone 
else have this issue?  Is it solvable?

Second, (No flames please) I really prefer KDE, if for no other reason 
that I am used to it.  However, the graphical login allows me to select 
KDE, but never seems to offer to make it a default.  Which means that if 
I am in a hurry, I get gnome.  I understand that there is a text file I 
can edit (.xinit or some such) but I would rather not.  Is there a 
straightforward way to make it KDE all the time?

Thanks...