I've finally solved the sound problem, though I have no idea why the KDE 3.2 installation provoked it. I had to change an obscure setting in the driver for my sound card (a Via 8235), which I did via Yast.
What obscure settings? My soundcard stopped working after the KDE 3.2 final (Santa Cruz/Turtle Beach with the CS4614/22/24 CrystalClear SoundFusion Accelerator driver). Good thing I still had my old SB120, which works fine.
But since your installation was successful, let me ask whether you've encountered the other problems I've reported:
1. Are your Konqueror fonts tiny when viewing Google?
No, they look fine to me. Other then the sound card incident, I had no problems at all getting 3.2 installed. I even installed it while being in KDE. Yast took care of all dependencies.
2. Can you get an icon for Yast2 or Gaim?
I would guess that these icons were provided by kdebase3-SuSE, which had to be removed. When you go to the creator of the Crystal icons website (www.everaldo.com) and download and install the Crystal SVG set, you get them all back. You'll have two entries of the same icon set in your control panel though. If that bothers you, you might be able to just overwrite the Crystal folder (it's on /opt/kde3/share/icons) with the new icon set.
3. Another big irritant I forgot to mention: does your SuSE help still have a search function? Mine doesn't (and it did when I was running KDE 3.1.4).
I removed the link to SuSE help a while ago, now when I call susehelp a konqueror window pops up with all sorts of links, but no search. My guess, it was probably included in kdebase3-SuSE. It's really too bad that SuSE packed all those little things in a package which is dependent on KDE 3.1.x. Cheers, -- Sabine