Randy - weird timimg, man. I just finished installing SUSE 9.1 last night. Yes, reset your bios so that the machine boots off the CD drive. Thing is, I bought a retail copy of SUSE - yes, I wimped out and spent $$. It came with a live CD and install CD. I haven't worked with the SUSE downloadable. I haven't fully read the other posts to this thread, but I assume you've already burned the download into an ISO image. If not, this link:
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/error.htm will get you what you need onto a CD. After that, it should be executable as both a live disk and installer. Everyone other Linux distributor is downloading their wares that way - I would assume SUSE/Novell would do the same.