May (I ay may) have fixed random hangs

I allowed SuSE to dictate how I partition MY hard-drves on MY system (how Microsoftian!) and followed Mark Gray's advice about the barrier=none addition, and have been running for a while, cross your fingers. On a related note, if reiserfs has problems why did SuSE adopt it for the / partition, moving away from ext3 (which was the default on 7.3, I think)?