3) As far as I know, the newest rpms from SuSE are amaroK-1.2-beta4. 1.2-final has already been released, but I haven't found rpms yet. You might think about updating by compiling it yourself - there's a how-to at the amaroK homepage. Works fine for me (9.2, kde 3.3.91 (beta1))
Guru's SuSE rpm site has the latest version rpms: http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=/Sound/amarok (it's linked also from amarok's download page) It is always in my bookmarks, a very useful site. On a side note though, the latest build seems to mangle the font encodings, showing greek (iso-8859-7) as something that looks like arabic. This is the first time I see something like this, choosing the correct encoding displays the wrong charset! Chris