Did you start it from a terminal? Do you get error messages?
In the first (looooong post)

Terminal output is:
[jim@localhost ~]$ kalarm
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
unnamed app(10202) main: Unknown resource type: "alarms"
[jim@localhost ~]$ KCrash: Application 'kalarm' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/home/jim/.kde4/socket-localhost.localdomain/kdeinit4__0