It's also important to know, which RPMs you installed.
Was it the ones the come with the SuSE distribution or did you get
them frome elsewhere?
Eg, I gave the RH 7.1 RPMs a try, but ended up with problems that
just could be described exactly the same way you describe yours.
(BTW, I use SuSE 7.2)
Regards
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