OS: RHEL 4.6
MACHINE: x86_64
KDE: 3.3.1-9.el4 Red Hat

After about two weeks of use, all widows old and newly created
are locked in place.
Selecting a window border, the cursor changes to the double head arrow
but resize is not working. Same for the "move" (alt + left mouse button)
the four head arrow cursor, but unable to move.

There are no "advanced, Special Window Settings" enabled that I can see.

Are you sure you're running KWin (and not e.g. Compiz Fusion)? You could try to run

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kwin --replace

in a terminal.

I was 'google'ing and did find this also, which does work
Now I will just let the user with this problem know to work around
the problem ( kwin --replace & )

If still want to run Compiz Fusion, just open the Settings Manager (ccsm I think) and enable the relevant modules, such as "Move" (or whatever it's called).

If KWin is fine, just don't start Compiz Fusion.