nVidia Hassle with 2.4.20

Hello all: I recently upgraded to a stock non SuSE 2.4.20 kernel and things appear to work fine. However, I can't enable 3D on my Nvidia card even though I followed SuSE's instructions on installing the new Nvidia drivers - I installed by RPMS as well as did the .run file as described by SuSE. 3Ddiag is complaining about modules ( nvidia.o ) not being found in the stock SuSE 2.4.19 directories. Why the heck would it look there? I'm not running modules from that directory. Ideas?