SuSE 9 on Laptop (updating)

Hi Folks, I am back on SuSE again for my laptop Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M, ATI MOBILITY RADEON 4X AGP, 64 MB DDR (shared). (my desktop will remain Slackware). It seems SuSE works best here. Note: Mandrake 10 made my laptop run at some kind of full-throttle: sounded like a steel workers machine (amusing, but dangerous I think). Got acpi after follwing instructions from klaptop and added some monitoring to kernel. Question: how can I best update to latest KDE. In slack I have swaret (its very simple). Also would like to get DVD to work. It would not accept the install DVD of Pro 9. Thanks Thom Nuzum in DC