Error on OS 10.4.6 update : peflight script problem

Hi there folks. i posted in the G5 Display forum a problem i had with my computer hanging during startup (the grey screen with the apple logo) after a powersurge/cut last week. i was running 10.4.11 and i tried every diagnostic, but to no avail.
i managed to boot up in Target Mode and save the data, and did a reinstall.
i can reinstall 10.4.3 and then manually update to 10.4.4 and then 10.4.5 with no problem. but i keep getting this error message with any of the later updates:
*failed: The following install step failed: run preflight script for Mac OS X Update Combined (PowerPC)*
when i check the crashlog it says:
*[477]: dyld: +Symbol not found: Perl_atforkunlock+*
*preflight[477]: Referenced from: /usr/bin/perl*
*preflight[477]: Expected in: /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib*
i can't figure out what has happened, but i've been reinstalling various versions of the OS now for days, and at one stage the computer kept booting into Darwin and all the Terminal command line gobbledygook kept popping up, which is utterly meaningless to me.
i can't figure out what to do, other than splash out on Leopard (which i am loathe to do!) and see if that works, but there's no guarantee it will.
anyone have this problem before or is tech-saavy enough to understand the meaning of the *+Symbol not found: Perl_atforkunlock+* message?
many thanks in advance...

Hi daddypaycheck. yeah, i completely wiped the drive a number of times (i guess i must have attempted about 12 installs!) and also did the whole repair permissions and various other diagnostic stuff, but to no avail.
so i went out and bought Leopard and did a complete full-on clean install...
with absolutely no luck. it bombed on me with 1 minute left to go, and every other attempt failed at the very start.
so, i went back to 10.4.3 and chanced my arm again with the combo update to 10.4.11, and lo and behold, but the damned thing worked!
EXCEPT for the fact that there are no folder icons on display in any view and barely any of my apple apps open (mail, ichat, safari and none of my iLife apps - except Garageband) etc, etc...
also, the vertical scrollbar is missing from all windows, including iTunes, whenever that decides to open...
i'm really, really annoyed with the whole thing now. i can't seem to find any info online. lots of similar, but-not-quite-the-same issues, regarding zapping PRAM, removing RAM, checking Graphiocs cards etc etc, but i have already tried all of these and there's no change.
if it does work perfectly as 10.4.3, then surely it stands to reason there can't be any problem with displaying 10.4.11?
and, in case anyone mentions to just stick with 10.4.3 if it works - my iTunes library seems to require 10.4.9 or later... sigh...
thanks for the input though dpc!

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