kernel panic under high load

Hello! I use SuSE 7.3 on a file server with Samba 2.2.1a (shipped with SuSE 7.3). But under high load, the SuSE Kernel panics. I am now downloading kernel 2.4.17 to compile and install myself. And I want to update Samba to 2.2.2, because of some oplock fixes. Is a ready SuSE rpm somewhere available? If not, which configure options have I to use in order to overwrite the old binaries and that the binaries searches smb.conf in /etc/samba? -- CU, Christoph