GNOME "Root Terminal" / gksu Problem

Hey all,
In GNOME, the "Root Terminal" application is having an issue. I can open it up and it works fine. If, however, I close that instance and try to open it again, I enter my password and get a minimized "window" titled "Granting Rights" in the taskbar which goes away after a couple of moments and the GNOME Terminal never opens.
If I run the command "gsku -l gnome-terminal" (from /usr/share/applications/gksu.desktop) in an open terminal, I get the same thing, however the gksu command never completes and I have to control-c it. Looking at a process list, I note that /usr/lib/libgksu/gksu-run-helper seems to be called by gksu, and when I kill it, gksu pops up a window with the following:
Failed to run gnome-terminal as user root.
Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper.
Received:
gksu: waiting
While expecting:
gksu: waiting
Nothing appears in the terminal from a terminal-run instance of gksu.
Has anyone ever experienced this and/or solved this?
Thanks,
David

The problem has disappeared on the VM, but it gets weirder still.
I did a fresh install of Arch on my machine (keeping the /home partition, but setting up a fresh, new user to test with), and the problem remains. But that's not all. The root terminal still works only the one time, but I found that if I max out all four cores of my machine with "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null" I can get the root terminal to appear every time that I execute it, if I max out three of them, it usually works, and if I max out two of them, it works some of the time.
There is pretty clearly something going wrong, and I'd bet it's a race condition.

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