Okular presentation mode shows only blank grey screen (using Xmonad)

I have a problem getting the presentation mode of Okular to work. When I select presentation mode, the screen is covered by a grey window with nothing in it. The only way to get rid of this window is by killing it from the window manager (i.e. the normal "exit presentation mode" shortcut (esc) doesn't work).
I am using Xmonad as a window manager (using the KDEWM environment variable).
It has been working before, but I don't know which update broke it.
I am running KDE 4.5.2 and Xmonad 0.9.1.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
-Toke

tohojo wrote:
I haven't found a way to make it stop doing that, but when the grey screen appears, pressing "B" twice seems to solve it, and make the normal presentation mode appear. (B is bound to "Switch to blackscreen mode").
This makes okular usable for presentations for me...
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