First dumb software upgrade ever

Please -- someone tell me -- why would Software Update allow download and installation of new OSX software (iTunes 7.4.2) on top of an OS version that does not support it? Apple updates have always -- ALWAYS -- been the most intelligent in terms of not messing up one's system but someone surely dropped the ball here. So: do I upgrade to 10.4.7 or do I reinstall iTunes 7.2 (on my PPC G4 PB/OSX 10.4.2)? I lean towards the latter: there was little wrong with 10.4.2 AFAICS. What do you advise?

Hi Mike,
Thanks so much for your help. I followed your instructions and everything was fine (even w/o repairing permissions). What surprised me was that in this case Apple's software upgrade simply wrote IT742 right over a working copy of IT72, rendering IT inoperable. The installer might at least have checked the OS version and asked: "if you install this version of IT on this version of MacOSX, IT will not run without an OS upgrade -- continue Y/N?". I am very happy with MacOS 10.4.2, so would have answered N. I have been using Macs since the year dot and it was always amazingly intelligent about not screwing things up, so I was a littel shocked. I guess we have been spoiled by Apple in the past!

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One thing which may have happened is this article:
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However, this is an important lesson for everyone. It is not a question of if data will be lost, but when.
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