LILO vs GRUB

I'm recent pruchased a new PC with a single SATA drive. I was unable to install SUSE to this PC using the default install. Every install attempt resulted in a GRUB error on the initial boot after the first CD. Changing the bootloader from GRUB to LILO fixed the problem and resulted in a successfull install. I'm concerned that I could not install SUSE with the default settings. It appears that SUSE, and the Linux community prefers GRUB and that GRUB is a more powerful bootloader than LILO. I do not plan on having any other OS on this PC other than SUSE. Should I be concerned that I could not use GRUB? What is the downside to using LILO instead of GRUB ? Any advise or comment would be appreciated. Matt