There was a bug that caused the notify spam. As I recall the fix was download first then the update to to KDE 4.3.5 came in the next update. If you did not log off and back on to apply the first fix you got a lot of notifications but no real problems.
The last is causes by having more then one update/install program running at one time. If you want to see what process is locking the RPM data type
ps -A | grep PID
where PID is the process ID number returned by the error.
Ok, so I restarted openSUSE and when I check for new updates it said no new updates are available. So does that mean all the updates were installed properly? How can I check to make sure?