I've repaired permissions 3 times. I have been scouring the web for a solution and the geeks at work are not being very helpful. It's a new image and having the same problem on all macs it's installed on. I need to get it working as we're a multi-lingual company and a lot of users may use 5 or...
I don't see any advantages to downloading the updates from the apple site unless you were going to use them on other machines. Why would this be a 'rule'? Surely it's personal preference and software update is accurate and very easy to use. I would ignore this comment if I were you.
I work for a big publishing company and all the machines have their specific image installed. I deleted the finder preferences already. I'm probably going to upgrade to 10.4.7 this afternoon.