Xauthority with FC6

On Fedora 5 (and previous), exmh 2.7.2 was installed and working fine.
So I performed an upgrade to FC6 (from DVD) followed by a "yum update".
Now exmh won't accept the Xauthority and gives the infamous error about
BgRegister, etc. The Xauthority file was still there and looked fine to
me, but just to be safe I renamed it, recreated it, and restarted X.
exmh still won't recognize it.

There were a number of problems with the upgrade. I mention them just
in case they might have a bearing. Updating with yum after the DVD
upgrade was not pleasant. I was forced to remove about 100 packages
before it would work, then add them back afterwards. It doesn't seem
right that yum can catch a whole bunch of dependency problems that
anaconda is happy to create. And strangely enough, the "yum update"
did /not/ update yum itself, though it needed to be updated.

My box runs KDE, not Gnome. After the upgrade with X and KDE running,
most things seem to work about as they did before. However, each window
seems to lose keyboard focus at random intervals. Sometimes between
almost every keystroke, other times I can type a few paragraphs before
the focus goes away. This also affects exmh. Clicking buttons always
works but keyboard commands sometimes produce no response.

When the focus is lost, the effect is that keystrokes don't seem to do
anything. It is as though the program running in that window has hung or
died, and at first I thought that was what was going on. However, I've
discovered that simply moving the mouse cursor out of the window and then
back in is enough to restore full keyboard function. My configuration is
set to "focus follows mouse" so moving the cursor changes which window
has focus.

FC6 has relocated the nmh commands from /usr/lib to /usr/libexec. I think
I've found all the scripts which referenced those commands and corrected
them. I also reinstalled exmh, just in case.

The keyboard focus problem doesn't seem likely related to the Xauthority
one, but maybe... Are there any other ways I can address my problem with
exmh and Xauthority?
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