10.4.8 update failed, I now have mac os with serial number, no version

Tried to update my iBook G3 700MHz to 10.4.8 but the update failed. Software update told me that I could try running the updater again from the Trash which did not work (even after moving the file from the Trash and running it from the desktop).
If I try running the updater (delta or combo, downloaded from apple.com) I only get a message telling me that there was some kind of JavaScript error and that the package cannot be installed.
According to apple > About this computer I don't have any version of Mac os, there is just a serial number there that I have never seen before. The serial number is where 10.4.8 would normally be.
At the bottom of the popup it only says "(c) & tm", I believe it should read "c & tm Apple Computer".
Disc Utility cannot repair permissions on my start-up drive because the button is greyed out. It seems as if Disc utility cannot find any version of Mac os on my single partition. I have no other harddrives or partitions attached to the ibook btw.
The iBook starts up just fine and Mac os works though. I'm using the iBook now. All programs that do not check the OS version work fine too, but BBEdit does not start since it "requires mac os 10.3.5 or later" and Disc utility does not want to repair permissions since it thinks I have no mac os installed.
Any idea how to reset or repair the version number except reinstalling mac os?
I did an update on my G5 powermac and that worked just fine so I can probably copy files from there if I only knew which ones to copy.
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4)

Hi-
Sorry you're having problems. Me too, but not quite as severe as yours. Was running 10.4.7 on a TiBook 800, 37 GB free space. Ran from the autoinstaller and it failed the same way yours did and suggested I run the package that was in the trash. I pulled that out and first ran disk utility. It fixed some permissions but I was unable to run the 'repair' as it was greyed out (the 'verify' came up w/ errors and said the disk needed repaired). I started up in single user mode and ran fsck -fy. This was able to fix the disk and resolve all (disk) errors.
Reran the updater by double-clicking on the package but it fails the same way. My info under the blue apple icon is unchanged from before I ran the updater (not as severe as your problem). But I'm just waiting for more info or a new release from Apple. I don't want to find a way to force this update and end up in worse trouble.
This is not the stock disk that came from Apple, I've upgraded it. I haven't noticed any other problems w/ the computer's behavior.
Good luck and let me know if you find a fix.
PB Ti G4 / 800 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

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