Upgrade effort abandoned. Installed OpenSuse 12.2 which, oddly enough, came with the new version of SA. All seems to be working well. OS seems a big leisurely though.
However, I can't seem to test with GTUBE. Gmail seems to eat these, they never get to me. Normal? Other gmail tests do. Also, cannot test using the "spamassassin -D < /usr/share/spamassassin/doc/spamassassin-3.0.3/sample-spam.txt" test, as, in this install, there is no doc directory. At least I have not found it yet. Words of guidance? joe a.