10.4.8 update causes MacBook not to start

Sits on the spinning wheel after numerous attempts to restart. Had no problem until I installed the update. Is there anything good in ths update? If so, what?
How do I go back to 10.4.7?

My Macbook also will not boot, though it did fine after the update (yes, it did restart twice). The freezing started many days later when a different user logged in. Immediately, beachball. Now it does it within 12 seconds of displaying the login screen. coreservic jumps to 100% cpu usage and the system beachballs. I have remote login enabled so I can troubleshoot this type of thing, but in this case there's nothing that can be done.
I've isolated it, I think, to an issue with the aiport. I can Safe Boot and do everything just fine, until the airport is enabled / attempted to be configured. Deleted all airport and network related prefs files manually via ssh, still no dice. So I figure I'll go back to my 10.4.7 SuperDuper backup...but..get this:
I cannot drag disk images in Disk Utility into the Restore window (yes, I'm booted from the startup disk). All mouse clicks are interpreted as a drag-select, and I am unable to move my source or target into the dialog, and swift thinking Apple put no alternate way to access them via a file browser dialog. Typing in full paths to the Volumes still will not enable the "Restore" button. So wth do I do now?

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