I just loaded Kubuntu 8.10 64 bit from the Alternate disk and cannot see most of the desktop area. I know there has to be a taskbar/panel/whatever somewhere that will let me change this but I cannot get to it. It seems the resolution is set to 1600x1200 or something. I think my max res. is 1024x768. I'm also pretty sure there is a good way to fix this outside of KDE but I am not really well versed in Linux and especially KDE. I tried 8.04 Ubuntu and Kubuntu 64 bit a few weeks ago and had the same issue in both. 32 bit works fine. Hardware is a 4 yr old Acer Aspire 1522LMi (AKA junk).

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.