I'm not sure if we can count on Linux Mint 5 KDE getting out of Beta
soon. They still have Mint 4 in beta stage for XFCE and Fluxbox.

Also, this Ultimat Edition 1.8 is holding a wireless connection that
wasn't consistent in the Linux Mint 5 KDE Beta 045.

I just saw on the Mint website the XFCE and Fluxbox editions are due
out early this week and the KDE version will be out by next weekend.
We will see how that turns out.