Akonadi Hell

Which sick, twisted mind designed Akonadi? Everytime I run Kontact for the first time, it will fire up a dialog, presenting me with strange errors that happen upon running Akonadi. The second time around, it works fine. This is, by the way, on a fresh KUbuntu 10.04 installation. Sometimes, a little bit more Q/A on complex FOSS projects would be really, really nice.
Update: Plus the display of Google contacts using Akonadi (in the KDE address book) is totally borked. Well, good thing I only change my contacts through MobileMe or the iPhone, and push those changes on to Google…