Download of Update for Mac OS  X 10 .5.3 gets stuck. Help!

Hi,
This is my friend's problem - mine was fine in downloading. He has had the most recent Upgrade- Quicktime and Airport Utility both came down fine, but for some reason he is having trouble in getting the Mac OS 10.5.3 upgrade. he has tried switching everything off and going in to do it manually but every time it starts then the screen says " preparing target volume - configuring Installation" and it then goes no further.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Liz

Hi Liz,
If you navigate & open the application in Finder: Applications>Utilities>Terminal
Once the terminal application has opened up, type the following into it:
sudo softwareupdate -i -a
It should then go off and find and install the available updates.
Hope that helps.
E

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