I cannot belive it!!

Dear All I need some help. I never thought I would have to do this. After years of successfully installing SuSE on anything and everything, laptops, desktops, servers - from 6.0 to 9.1. I am stumped by 9.2!!! I don't know what the clever people at Novel have done but the usually fool proof installation is broken. I get the looking for some installation files hang on normal installation, with or without acpi. So I went for manual install. It then crashes on hard drive driver load - a red box comes up and it starts again. There seems to be no way out of this blind circle of recurring nightmares. Has anyone got any ideas - short of giving up on 9.2 and waiting for 10. Nick