4.6 updater doesn't provide a destination volume

Running on a Powerbook G4, 17" (first generation), 1Gb RAM, 100Gb HD. Running Tiger 10.4.5. Tried running the updater through the software update panel - got about 3/4 through, then said it couldn't complete the update. Rebooted, repaired disk permissions, then downloaded the updater for a manual install. Ran it, went through all the confirmation screens, but when I got to the Destination Volume screen, it was blank - no drives showing. Tried to run Disk Utility, and it won't open because of a background utility that failed to launch. Shut down the Powerbook, hooked it to my G5 in target disk mode and ran Disk Utility to repair disk and disk permissions. Everything completed successfully. Downloaded the 10.4.6 Combo installer for PPC, booted the Powerbook. Still no drives in the destination volumes screen. Rebooted using DiskWarrior, repaired the drive without any issues, rebooted in Safe Mode... still no drives showing.
Can anyone tell me what's going on here and what I need to do to fix this? The Powerbook is running fine otherwise, but I'd like to get this updater installed. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

I've also had similar problems since trying to install 10.4.6 on my 15"PB (which was previously running beautifully on 10.4.5). After numerous problems, even after Archive & Install, the hard drive "disappeared." Someone on this forum posted this fix (see the 2nd post): http://tinyurl.com/zbgrk
Once I got the hard drive back, I reformatted the drive and reinstalled 10.4.5 (I just spent the whole weekend on this mess, and I'm not going to try 10.4.6 again! )

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