10.4.11 update wont let computer boot

Hi. My Mac won't boot anymore after the 10.4.11 update. I read in a few other posts about this problem, but don't really understand what needs to be done. I don't have my disks yet as I am at college and they are being mailed to me. I am also in no area of an Apple store. I do have an external drive that I use a purchased copy of "SuperDuper" to copy my stuff to. I think that SuperDuper makes a bootable drive. Is there any way to fix my mac without having to do anything really hazardous and data loosing? If there is, I would love an easy to understand step by step guide. Thanks.
~Valentine

Boot from your external, not that you have any other choice, and download the combo version updater from…
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
… and then reapply the 10.4.11 update using that updater onto your internal.

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