Does an upgrade cure an update disaster?

I have an iMac my family uses running Snow Leopard and during the automatic Software Update installation of the 10.6.8 Update last year the Mac hung:
10.6.8 update crashed before it completed and now the Finder won't launch.
Fortunately for me, I had downloaded the 10.6.8 Combo Update separately because the iMac I use is not connected to the WWW. I was able to recover enough that my family is able to continue to use the iMac even though I know that it isn't as stable nor as fast as it was before the update hung.
I have purchased Lion but I have only used it to upgrade the iMac's flawed contents that I imaged onto a FW800 HDD. Lion runs faster on the external FW800 HDD and is more stable than Snow Leopard is running on the internal SATA HDD.
Did the upgrade from 10.6.8 to 10.7 on the FW800 eliminate all the bad "juju" from the 10.6.8 update disaster (and I can now image it back to the internal HDD) or is there still a high probability that something is still lurking in 10.6.8?
TIA.

mende1,
While I would have agreed with you BEFORE I tried it, it seems that whatever is wrong with my 10.6.8 confiugration, upgrading it to 10.7 absolutely made the resulting OS much more faster (despite running from an FW800 external HDD) and stable than before the upgrade. And I don't question one iota that a clean install would eliminate all concerns of any leftover problems (only new ones).
However, there seems to be quite a bit of problems, I've read here and elsewhere, when doing a clean install and then using Setup Assistant, Migration Assistant using the 10.6 image, or Migration Assistant using Time Machine. So it seems that an upgrade avoids those issues with the various Assistants. What would you suggest if I did do a clean install?
BTW, where did you learn that 10.8 "will be launched next week" other than we're running out of July?

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