10.3.9 combo update freezes during intall

I downloaded the 10.2.9 combo update on another Mac with a broadband conecction, (I onl have a dailup connection here at home), burned the download to CD and have attempted to update my eMac using the installer which I had burned.
I did a REPAIR PERMISSIONS as suggested by others, dragged the installer to the desktop and started the installation from the icon on the desktop. Everything was going well until the end when the installer was at the OPTIMIZING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE stage. At 37% complete, everything froze.
Luckily, I was able to restart, and to be safe, and I ran Disk First Aid, Repair Permissions and DiskWarrior.
Everything seems normal, but I am reluctant to try to install the update again for fear of another freeze.
Any suggestions?

Your post is a bit confusing because the title mentions 10.3.9 combo updater, you also mention 10.2.9 (which doesn't exist, so I think you meant 10.3.9), and your signature indicates 10.3.5.
You should know that the "optimizing" step happens AFTER the system updates have actually already finished installing. If you got through 37% of the "optimizing" stage, then you should be running under 10.3.9 right now.
Check under the Apple menu, top left of your screen, the "about this mac" item, report back here what version of the operating system you have. I am guessing it is 10.3.9, in which case I would say you are done and can go use your new system.
If you really got to the optimizing step, you do not need to reapply the combo update.
It would be nice to know why the optimizing did not complete, but it can take a very very long time, and sometimes it can appear to be make no progress for a number of minutes, then it picks up again. On older Macs, I try not to even watch it because it takes so long and it makes me nervous. Maybe there was some small power fluctuation or some such glitch, but from the sounds of things, you have a healthy system.
If you really want to finish the "optimizing" step (the sole purpose of which is to make programs start quicker), you can download a free program called Onyx and it has an option to perform "prebinding," which is what the "optimizing" does. I'd make a backup of everything before doing that -- in fact make sure you have a backup anyway because the "optimizing" freeze could always be due to some hardware problem that could get worse, so better to be safe than sorry.
If it were me, I'd simply not worry about it -- you'd have real problems if your computer had "frozen" during the update itself, but the "optimizing" step is not critical to the computer working properly.

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