the SuSE Live-CD is an entirely different concept anyway; it tries to show people the pleasures of Yast2, other than that it's just well, kinda, crippled
In short, I don't like it, Knoppix does a much better job with autodetection, has more features, fewer bugs, less bloat and it's actually intended for people who want to get real work done!

Just my 2 cents worth..

p.s.: The "full install" SuSE 9 ain't bad though!