Can't update the OS

On my Mac, 10.6 is installed. And I can't update the OS, neither automatically (S.U.app) nor manually (Combo Update). S.U. does not find any updates, the 10.6.2 Combo Update cannot be used on this computer.
Thus, I can't use Safari 4.0.3 that is necessary for using the iTunes Store...
Thanks a lot for a good idea!
Peter
+Please don't tell me to re-install the whole OS or to buy a new Mac or...+

Peter R. wrote:
And the 10.6.2 combo update cannot be applied on this volume.
Make sure that you have downloaded the correct version of the combo update. One is for the server version of the OS, an entirely different OS from the normal Snow Leopard one, & it is easy to confuse the two.
Also, how much free space is on your startup volume? You need several GB free for scratch space just to do the update.
Is there anything unusual about how you installed or reinstalled Snow Leopard? The normal install method only works if the partition scheme is GUID Partition Table (GPT), but some users get around that restriction by cloning a backup of their startup drive onto the normal one, often to run the OS from a drive partitioned with the Apple Partition Map scheme (APM).

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