In doing a reinstall from the beginning on my Dad's box( a spare, so I have tons of tiem to figure it out if I should need it). I have done a reinstall twice, and each time when I am going through the big setup(after KDE install, then running YOU) I run the Software Manager in YAST and start getting java, flash, acroread, and media support... it freezes. All 3 total times it freezes with 22 seconds left out of the 30+ minute install/dopwnload thing. Last 2 times, if I killed it, it would die right there, and trying to install pretty much anything else using YAST fails. So instead of killing it, I have left it overnight. It is still frozen with 22 seconds to go. I have not killed it this time, though after finding the DVD driver was bad last time, perhaps it wouldn't be as detrimental this time, but I don't wanna keep reinstalling for no reason.
No, the whole computer doesn't freeze, JUST YAST. I can still browse the internet, do whatever else, everything works... But YAST I cannot abort, or anything else.

It ran Win98 forever, and hardware tests tell me all the hardware is still good(short of a dvd drive I had to replace with a new one).

I am using SuSE 10 OSS(same install discs I have used on 2 other machines, so it is obviously not the install discs,) default kernel, KDE, full YOU updates. It is an old IBM Aptiva P3 550Mhz, 256Mb of ram, onboard sound, a Savage Video card, 16Gig HD(all of it going to linux)... I set it up with XFS file system, I have tried a 470Mb 2x, and a 1 GiG swap last time thinking it may be maxing out on memory.

The only thing I am not sure about is which file may be at fault if it is one, cause I used the same repositories on my main linux tower and the other one, without this issue.

Has anyone else had the system kill itself when using YAST? And if so or not, what can I do here?

Yast did weirder that freezing. Apparently a few of the install sources I use, went dead. Probably about then this last time, I knew xfs and a 1 gig swap shoulda worked. Anywho, 2 or the 6 sources I used crapped, and so it froze. Upon restarting the box, and opening YAST, it talked about a dependency, Amarok-Xine was old and busted. So I got a new one, which is good. Now I can install and configure, it still works...
But now, on it and another machine I have issues connecting to Guru and I forget which other one... something going on with those?

On a side note: Way to go YAST for recovering yourself and picking up wher eyou left off, even after crashing...or supposedly crashing...or something.