Black screen on startup after update

I am using Leopard (clean install) on a 24" aluminum imac. I've had this problem a couple times now. When I install the system updates, it tells me it will need to reboot. I say OK. It says something about needing to reset "boot caches" and then it will reboot. I say OK. It appears to shutdown or attempt to restart, but instead it just sits there at a black screen. I can tell the system is still on, but nothing happens. After a while, I can do a hard shutdown and reboot, and things seem to work OK... until I am asked to do another update. (Leopard just came out, but I've already been asked to do a system update several times now... perhaps its the same one that keeps failing?)

The exact same thing just happened on my 20" iMac G5. Anyone have any ideas?

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    I'm having basically the same problem with my PowerBook 1Ghz Aluminum 17". After running the latest security update and latest iLife patches using SU, my system boots to the local Darwin consol login. I can see my HD and all it's files, but I can't get the machine to boot back into GUI mode. Safe mode doesn't work.
    This was a newly refreshed system running 10.4.6 and ONLY iLife installed - nothing funky and no 3rd-party apps other than those pre-installed in 10.4.x.
    I've booted with the 10.4 DVD, repaired permissions (again) and repaired the drive (reported not needed). Zapping the PRAM doesn't help.
    Perhaps I have a lemon because I have had problems with this machine in the past, but only when installing major system updates between 10.3-10.4 with non-apple RAM. I don't think this is the culprit this time as the machine has been functioning fine since the last fresh 10.4 install (with some OWC RAM).
    Any ideas? Anyone have tips for what can be done in the console to repair the system?
    ARGH
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