Straight from the horse's mouth:
The boxed version is available now from PC World, Amazon, our own web site
www.suse.co.uk and other places. We normally place each version on FTP
about 6-8 weeks after initial release.
So I wouldn't bother checking on any ftp servers just yet (the official release
date for SuSE 9 was the 24th of October).
Cheers,
Jon.