Annoying failures and reminders when not logged in as admin

how can i stop apple software update (asu) from constantly bugging me when i'm not logged in as an admin?
i like the automatic check (noone likes updating everything manually) but every apple program fails to install unless you're an admin. it would be much better if asu checked before it looked for updates, or let people know there are updates but they cannot be installed unless they are logged in as admin.
what's worse is if it downloads an update and the install fails because you're not an admin, asu downloads the whole file again when you do log in as admin. these files should be cached in a temporary folder in asu's 'program files' folder until the install is successful or a newer version is available.

freakin' awesome! of course, i never saw that scheduled task because it only shows when logged in as an admin, and apple is the only program i have that has its schedule there rather than in its own interface.
now that i have seen this it seems stupid that so many programs don't have their updates scheduled there.
i have not tested it as such but i have a task in my limited account that only runs when i'm logged on so i know that this will work. i also changed the schedule from a set time weekly to ‘at logon’ so it will actually get a chance to run.
edit by online?:
the scheduled task sets asu to run in the SYSTEM account but then asu seems to launch the installers with the locally logged on user's credentials, so this fixed my problem but not the underlying cause.

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