Guess what! I just got my Suse 10.1 box last night. And today I had a call from the distributor and they said the product is being recalled!
They left a message on my answering machine so I don't know any details, I'll find out more on Monday. And I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. If they recall it because of the broken package manager and they will fix it and send a new one to me, it's a good thing. Apart from that you can only guess unless someone knows more.
But I'll still install it on my desktop on a test partition but I won't use the updater. I'll just check how everything works generally. And will be waiting for the replacement copy. They'd better be quick, I've been waiting for so long. They have to stick a firecracker into that delivery donkey's butt.