kTorrent GUI doesn't open after upgrade to #9

I've been suffering this for a while now but put up with it. A couple of weeks ago I somehow managed to find/discover the GUI after it had taken forever to download the pre-torrent files (I presume - or however it works). Anyway I managed to be able to access it through a few overnight restarts, but then, after all of the torrents had finished downloading and seeded for a while; I stopped torrents and deleted torrents and data. Since the following restart, if I try to start kTorrent from the Task Bar Icon, it briefly appears as stating (whirling icon in Task Bar) then disappears. In the process monitor I can see it is actively downloading some new small torrents I had done, but NO GUI - it is somehow, as previously, starting and running in the background by default. This has never been the case with kTorrent in every release of Mageia I have been through - #3 onwards. (IIRC).
Is anyone able to help with this? I searched prior to posting and found an old forum post in the KDE Community Forums circa 2007 (not directly related to Mageia though, but same problem).
Some suggestions proffered were:

Issue the following command in the terminal.

ktorrent --nofork

it didnt work (his reply); my reply is the same - "ktorrent: Unknown option 'nofork'."

is there anything else that might work?

Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:10 pm
killall ktorrent (to make sure it isn't running)

Then edit ~/.kde/share/config/ktorrentrc and delete all lines containing hidden_on_exit

Then restart ktorrent, and it should appear

I checked "~/.kde/share/config/ktorrentrc" this file does not exist.

So where to from here?
(There's probably a perfectly simple solution to this I'm betting, just I haven't found it)

Any help gratefully accepted.
Milo