[NoCat] access.fw defunct

[Vacio]

hi folks, 

I'm having some trouble with NoCat Splash.  Once a user times out, he can't
log back in.

When I do a ps -effw, I see multiple instances of:
root      1159   539  0 Jul07 ?        00:00:00 [access.fw] <defunct>

I've read that these aren't supposed to matter, but I'm suspicious.  Is
there a fix around to get splash to close these old tasks properly?

Any help is appreciated, 

/Rob