10.4.7 update won't let g5 boot past spinning wheel

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My 10.4.7 update made my g5 dual 2.0 unhappy-spinning wheel and shut down syndrome.
Things i did:
-Booted from disk,repaired permissions and volumes(it was OK anyway)
deep-cleaned cache using COCKTAIL
-reinstalled 10.4.7 again
-pulled the power cord(PMU reset)Why? Because the PMU always bricks this machine
-Zaped PRAM(why I dunno, it works sometimes...)
-Selected Harddrive as start up disk and rebooted
-unplugged all peripherals
-after 1 minute, same problem!
The only thing that works is to hold the OPTION KEY down and select the harddrive as the boot drive. So the computer is now totally confused it seems. It's a pain to do, but I can get it running. Everytime though??
I feel sorry for the average Joe Blow that gets an auto-update that bricks their machine.
What's next-I did this:http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html and there aren't any bad sectors.
ARGH-Thanks to whomever suggested the OPT key. That at least gets me running .
10.4.6 did have a VPN software installed though. It doesn't start the application on boot though-would this affect it?

Do this. If you can - get into the prompt at boot. if not you can run the command from within OS X's terminal.
1. Hold Down Apple+S to get to the shell
2. Do an FSCK - f
3. Once that is complete type in this command: (you need to know the label name on your disk...
sudo bless -folder '/volumes/yourdrivename/system/library/coreservices' -setOF
You have to type it in exactly as it is above. this will "bless" the drive and should fix it..I've had this same problem many times..This usually fixes it.
You can also run this command from the terminal and you dont need to be logged in as root.

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