Why: "There was no update executed to now."

A few days ago I intentionally wiped out my Suse Pro 9.2 and reinstalled from scratch. All went well except I apparently cannot get updates to take hold. Using YOU, I keep getting the same updates to install. Why is this? Before deleting and reinstalling Suse Pro 9.2 I had KDE 3.3.3x running at level a (or something like that). Obviously I have been using Linux only one month. But I was willing to experiment doing different things knowing I would screw up my system and would have to reinstall. Now that I want to keep my system trim and working well, I can't get updates to take and can't get the kernel back to running at 'level a'. Any suggestions or ideas? Thanks much guys. Andy