Actually, what it may do is remove the air space from the pan and lock it that way. And mine was not the only case of Hydraulic Lock I have heard of from being overfilled. So, the valve seals was a guess...
And SuSE is just right. Well, except 10.2. If you're going to include all these fancy desktop tricks, you could at least make sure it works with Ati video cards...they're only currently the world's biggest Video chip maker...
I like Ubuntu....more Windows users should try it! (But that is a discussion for another group...Oh, knoppix is cool, too...saved my bacon when Windows or SuSE 9.3 has blown it's brains out!)