10.6.4 update need 5GB? Won't download

I keep getting a message to upgrade Snow Leopard to 10.6.4 but when I try to update, I get this message:
Your hard disk does not have enough space.
You need 5.83 GB of available space to download and install the updates. To increase available space, remove files from your startup disk, and then try again.
On the main software update screen, it says that "Mac OS X Update Combined" only needs 934.7 MB. What is the other 4GB about?
I have jumped through hoops to get only about 2GB free on my drive. (Mostly since iPhoto took over all my photos and now I can't move them.)

Less than 10GB of free space is rather dangerous and places the likelihood of not being able to update or write out a valid directory or backup directory as well as changes to files and journal, and then you can't boot. Think of taking the card catalog away and then try to find a book, only the books have been moved.
There may be other updates as well.
If you haven't been making backups or repairing your drive, now is the time. A drive to offload files to one partition, a 2nd partition for TimeMachine, maybe a smaller 3rd partition with just OS X on it that you can boot from.
I am pretty sure that there was a time when an update would be just gone on its merry way, and resulted in an unbootable computer and even more trouble and worse off.
You can find instructions and hard drives to upgrade, spare external case for old drive. I'd look for new internal drive, use your existing drive as backup system, and a new backup drive for TimeMachine and clone your system.
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