[sgould]

Got my new Black MacBook home. It's the 2.2 GHz, 160GB, 2GB RAM version. Turned it on and all was OK. Leopard 10.5 pre-installed. Set-up was good, connected to the internet via my Airport. Looked good.

Tried a couple of things...again OK. Downloaded all the upgrades via Software Update. And again all seemed well. Now running 10.5.1

Did a few things to check it all worked and decided to install Parallels 3.0 from the box I bought. Install from CD hung. Tried a restart and the install hung again at the same place - very soon after the start with about 1/8th of an inch of the progress bar. Had tea and found that the progress bar had not moved in 20 minutes.

Tried a third time after copying the .dmg to the Hard Disc but the result was the same.

Looked at the Apple site and a similar fault was cured by repairing the disc permissions. BUT I could not get the permissions to repair or verify. The program hung in the same way as parallels.

Ran the full extended hardware test from the CD - all OK.

Planning an erase and reinstall of everything. But it seems extreme since all the applications and internet stuff works OK.

Any other suggestions?

I can't find a 10.5.1 Combo update. Is there one?

I don't think that Software Update offered or installed the MacBook Software Update 1.1 which was posted by Apple a couple of days after the 10.5.1 update. Would this help?