10.4.7 nearly killed my Mini, Now What?

After auto-update to 10.4.7 on a standard Mini Core Solo, 512MB, I experienced major problems. Disappearance of all desktop folders and Finder not responding, Dashboard not working, most applications not accessible, drag and drop unresponsive, etc. This was literally 4 days after my 90-day warranty expired, so no Apple help so I turned to discussion pages and after running a repair disk permissions was unable to open any applications and so all files were irretrievable. I finally reinstalled 10.4.5 from the back up and all appears to be fine, but a lot of rebuilding to do for lost files (back up lesson learned). I did not have to reinstall Boot Camp; Windows was unaffected. But now I'm wondering what to do--wait and see about fixes to 10.4.7, or wait until 10.4.8. I just switched from Windows, and must say, am not too happy about it right now.

Hang in there. I've had Macs for forever and this is the first update that caused me problems. (I'm not a tech, but there's got to be a bug in that update.) I clicked on the software update without a second though. Once I restarted, my Logitech Trackball was dead, eject wouldn't work, wireless network was gone, etc. There is no operation of a computer without a mouse. I spent MANY hours on Sunday trying to get back to operational and finally had to reinstall 10.4. I plan to wait for a fix, then I'll wait a little longer still. This was my first and only BOMB of an update in 15 years. Keep the faith.
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