First bookmark this page!
http://www.zebulon.org.uk/urpmi_en.html
You'll need to do the above immediately after installing your new version.
Note that all of the files available on the CD's are also available on the URPMI repositories.
The URPMI repositories are nothing more than FTP sites.
If you want a listing of the packages, just peruse the sites....
PLF and Contrib round things out effectively quadrupling the number of additional programs you can install with a command or two.