Booting issues after 10.4.11 update

i was doing an update on my mother in-laws 20" intel iMac, it restarted and wouldn't get past the "starting OS X" screen (blue one with the apple logo and progress bar on it). i was able to mount the imac on my laptop (target disc mode) and grab the software update log and the last things install during that update were a quicktime, itunes and OS 10.4.11 update. it was shutdown after it had been hanging for a couple of hours.
i have tried booting off a 10.4 CD and it hangs at the same place.
i have tried booting my laptop off it while it is in target disc mode, my laptop hangs at the same place.
i have booted in to single user mode and ran fsck and everything appears to be fine.
i was planning on booting off the cd or my laptop and running a permissions repair but when it was mount on my laptop that option was greyed out in disk utility. and i can't boot off the OS cd as stated above.
any ideas?

J.L. sez:
i was planning on booting off the cd or my laptop and running a permissions repair...
I sez:
What were you updating ???
I don't think you really want to do that. Booting Barb's computer off a CD or DVD and running the permission repair from Disk Utility on the optical disk would repair permissions to what user ??? You can repair or verify from the disk utility when running off a system installer DVD but I don't think its a good idea to repair permissions that way.
As for the rest of it, if it will boot off a system installed in an external USB or FW drive or a disk in an external CD or DVD player, then I would suspect that you may have to archive & install a new system on the iMac.
Good luck.
M

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