I have had some problems following an update of suse. I decided therefore to go for a complete fresh installation (and to sacrifice the other stuff that I had installed - such is life)

During the installation a couple of files were not loading, I retried them all and they went in 2nd or 3rd attempt. The only one that did not (after 7-8 attempts) was a file named

java-1_4_2-sun

Is this file important?
If so, how am I best to rectify this?

The DVD used fot the installation is a magazine cover disc (that worked perfectly first time around)

Looks like a common java file. You can download and install from here or via YaST.