10.9.2 update bricked my MacBookPro

All was well running OS 10.9.1 on my 2007 MacBookPro with Core2Duo processor.
Then came the OS 10.9.2 update. First it caused the crash report function to peg the CPU, running more threads until it topped out at 8.
Repaired the disk permissions twice. Rebooted gracefully several times. But the new problem persisted.
Finally on the seventh reboot, the system reached the login screen. I could not finish typing a password before a hard hang left the system entirely unresponsive. After a few minutes, I forced a reboot with the power button.
Now the system is bricked, all thanks to a poison update.
The question is how do I get past this poisonous update, which seems to have impacted the firmware as well, because now the system will not boot from known good alternate boot media.

Thank you Bob. I should have tried harder to get the MacBookPro to respond to boot-time keypresses. It took several tries to force firmware to boot from an alternate OS image on external drive, but when that finally worked, I realized that the OS 10.9.2 upgrade damage was limited to the OS boot and recovery partitions on the internal SSD
I'll conceed that OS X is not my first & best platform, and I force OS X to coexist in a corporate ecosystem dominated by Linux and Windows.
Likely third-party drivers clobbered by OS 10.9.2 which ran fine up through 10.9.1 include:
1. remote video projector link provided by AirParrot since Apple does not support AirPlay in the OS on my older 2007 MacBook Pro despite having dedicated GPU that's capable.
2. third-party NTFS to get complete functionality
3. third-party WiFi drivers for spectrum analysis
4. third-party tool to force OS X to support TRIM on non-Apple SSD.
The freshly installed image of OS 10.9.2 thats working now on the internal SSD will be replicated to external drive prior to installing any of those four items.

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