Opensuse 11.2 milestone 4

Installed OpenSUSE 11.2 milestone 4 (I know, 5 is out already, haven't tried it yet) into my Thinkpad T43. Some remarks (please give me some advice if you've resolved any of the listed problems below):

Installer announced that the grub installation failed somehow. But it seems to boot up just fine, strange.

Kde-desktop is cool, IMHO.

I was not able to install newest ati fglrx driver. Driver installer complains something about kernel version.

I enabled fingerprint reader and ran into problems - resolved by disabling it. I will come back to this and see if I can make it to work.

Most annoying currently: Network manager does not work. It just keep on asking for wpa-password. Seems to be known issue but I did not find any solution for the problem that would have worked for me. I have temporarily just enabled ifup based network connection management but I think that Network manager is the tool that I want to use once it works.

For me the audio with flash player does not work. And, of course, mp3 playback does not work due to missing codecs etc. I just do not want to downgrade to Amarok 1.x after seeing the glory of Amarok 2.x.

New World

I opened the door and entered in. It's all black and I am bit scared. Where I am?

I just created my first blog account. What's next? Facebook? Twitter? Dozen of IM accounts? Middle-aged man is lost...