A safe way to upgrade to 10.5.6

1 - If you normally have Software Update running and now have OS X 10.5.5. Do NOT allow Software Update to upgrade to 10.5.6 as there is a mixed history of various difficulties described in other threads here. Download the 372 MB dmg updater from:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_6Update
Follow the instructions but note that it will require a further 1.1 GB of disk space to expand into, ie a total of about 1.5 GB.
2 - If you have OS X 10.5 but it is not up to date. Download the 668 MB dmg Combo updater from:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_6_ComboUpdate
3 - If you have doubts about a previous 'Software Update' attempt to update to 10.5.6 I advise following the instructions in item '1' above - ie run it over the top of the already installed 10.5.6.
I have no plans to mark this topic as 'answered' but would prefer comments to be restricted to improvements or disadvantages of these methods.

Regarding your #1 point, consider that the topics in Discussions are dominated by users looking for help with problems. Rarely if ever does a user take the time to start a thread just to report success using Software Update to automatically update the OS. This often creates the false impression that Software Update or some delta update is somehow intrinsically problematic & users are likely to have problems if they upgrade using this method.
An analogy often used to explain why this impression is false is what could be called the hospital effect; namely, that If you try to judge the health of a population only by visiting hospitals, you are likely to conclude that everybody is sick. IOW, you must consider a representative sample to make a valid general conclusion.
Discussions does not provide that, but it does provide specific ways to recover from a failed upgrade if you happen to be among the minority experiencing one of the various difficulties this topic alludes to. In terms of the analogy, it is like the help you get at a hospital: doctors don't prescribe the same course of treatment for every ailment, & neither should we.
Regarding the combo updates in particular, they include complete current versions of every OS file that has been updated since the major version of the OS was released. In comparison, the delta updates provide a mix of replacement files & patches to existing files sufficient to increment the last minor version to the current one. This makes the combos effective 'medicine' only for problems that are caused by corruption or deletion of one or more of the files it replaces.
If you don't have this problem to begin with, or have some other problem, using the combo update gains you nothing.

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