Fedora 12: issue running custom Env. Variable before KDE login

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Hello Everyone
This is an otherwise stock installation of KDE on Fedora 12.  I compile and 
run three KDE applications from KDE's extragear SVN repository (Amarok, K3B 
& Krusader), and one that does not come from KDE (Bibletime).

I install them in a new path each time, depending on what day that I am 
updating.  Today I have installed Amarok, Bibletime, K3B & Krusader in 
"/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde"  So, for example, 
"/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin" looks like this:
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/amarok
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/amarok_afttagger
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/amarokcollectionscanner
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/amarokmp3tunesharmonydaemon
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/amarokpkg
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/bibletime
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/k3b
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/k3bsetup
/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328/kde/bin/krusader

This path does definitely exist!

K3B, for example, does not detect the appropriate plugins unless I set the 
KDEDIR to point to the directory that "bin/k3b" is located in.  So, I 
created a file called "/home/steve/.kde/env/customenv.sh"  It's entire 
contents look like this:
export KDEDIR=/usr
export KDEDIRS=/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328:$KDEDIR

"systemsettings | Advanced| Autostart" has that script set to run on "Pre-
KDE startup"

>From a terminal, the values of $KDEDIR and $KDEDIRS are as follows:
[steve@localhost ~]$ $KDEDIR
bash: /usr: is a directory
[steve@localhost ~]$ $KDEDIRS 
bash: /usr/local/spu/spu-20100328:/usr: No such file or directory
[steve@localhost ~]$ 

And, as most of you probably expect from what you read above, "which k3b" 
returns the following value:
[steve@localhost ~]$ which k3b
/usr/bin/k3b
[steve@localhost ~]$ 

So, I am at a loss as to what to do next.

Here is a link to the K3B forum:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=86700&p=152946#p152071

where I got the idea for:
export KDEDIR=/usr
export KDEDIRS=/usr/local/spu/spu-20100328:$KDEDIR

(I have changed what I was originally told to try to make things more 
simple to maintain.  In fact, I used to have four separate KDEDIRS lines in 
customenv.sh and it worked great.  For a while...)

So, any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.

Steven P. Ulrick

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