My bad. I had no idea what version Suse is up to. Should have checked on it myself before I started typing away. :-) From the context, it sounded like it was an older version.
You said that you were able to get the drive mounted, but it wasn't seen by konq. Does it show up with "df"?
df?
(hits man df)
OK...df /media/cdrom
output =
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sr0 298280 298280 0 100% /media/cdrom
I can read the contents via ls -s in terminal.