I'm pleased to be able to report that a fresh Ubuntu Raring Ringtail also now upgrades to the 3.8.0-19.30 version (although it doesn't alter the previous finding that the script apparently fails on 3.x.x.xx without the trailing postscript -nn release version). Your kernel version of Suse also follows that self-same pattern that seems to work ok.
The upgrade script appears to be different from that used in the 'easy install' as tools installs on versions that I would have expected to give problems (assuming of course that it is a script problem).