Help! I dowloaded an automatic update & now can't login to my Mac!!!

I started with Mac OS X v10.4 on my computer, but set it up for automatic updates. After downloading the latest update yesterday, after I type in my password on the login screen, I briefly see a "blank desktop" view (i.e., I can see the wallpaper that I normally have displayed) and then the screen goes to a "blank light blue" screen before returning me to the log in screen. I've tried running the disk utility but no luck... Does anyone have a suggestion???

If you are ok with using the terminal you can try this, copied from another thread
+FIXED WITHOUT REINSTALLING OS X+
+Found the install disk, booted from it, and instead of doing archive/install, went to Utilities | Terminal. Note that my laptop's HD is called "Laptop HD", not the standard "Macintosh HD" ...+
+I didn't have a USB drive handy, so I had to get the installer package over using another networked computer and HTTP:+
+On another computer, downloaded the installer package, opened the disk image, and copied the package itself to my ~/Sites folder. Renamed it "fix.pkg" to make for less typing. Right-clicked and selected "make an archive of fix.pkg" to make "fix.pkg.zip". Made sure web sharing was on in the System Prefs.+
+Back on BustedMac, typed the following:+
+cd "/Volumes/Laptop HD/Users/myuserid"+
+../../usr/bin/curl http://myothercomputeraddress/~myuserid/fix.pkg.zip -o fix.pkg.zip+
+../../usr/bin/unzip fix.pkg.zip+
+Now, having the package on the machine, I then did as suggested in a few other related threads:+
+../../usr/sbin/installer -pkg package.pkg -target "/Volumes/Laptop HD"+
+The package installer then ran (in the Terminal window). It said "Installer: Package name is Mac OS X Update (Intel)" and then another line ... sat there for a minute, then gave lots of errors about kexts not containing code for the architecture specified (which seems odd ... are these PPC-only kexts maybe?). Again, it sat for a few minutes with the fans on and periodic disk activity. Finally, it gave the following message:+
+"installer: The install was successful".+
+Quit Terminal.+
+Force-Rebooted (the installer disables the usual system restart menu option, so that's the only choice).+
+For giggles, I held down Command-V while rebooting ... got to the point of the "diskarb isn't ready yet" messages (and actually something which looked a bit alarming about giving up waiting for diskarb), and about 5 minutes later I had my login screen.+
+So, if you are at all adept with the command line, this will give you a way to re-run a failed OS X update without trashing the entire system!+
+15" MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10)+
If not I would suggest an Archive and install from the cd. And then run the updates.

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