HELP! my PowerPC G$ won't update and "error whilst printing"!!!

My G4 has been behaving a little odd this past week. I first noticed it when i went to use software update (as usual).. it all downloaded then when it went to the next stage it said there was an error, trp repairing the permissions on the file.. (below).. and try again -
"private/tmp/501/temporaryitems/com.apple.softwareupdate"
i've been into disk utility to verrify and repair permissions, i've shut down and re-started my mac.
Not sure if it's connected, but also just as recent i keep getting an 'error whilst printing" message every time, and from all programmes i try to print from. It lets me save as PDF... but just not 'print'. i have my printers over a LAN server, and they are printing from other computers on the network, and i open 'printer setup utility' and the printers are there, i can see ink levels and i can 'stop printing' and 'start printing' without an error message.
Again i have tried repairing disk permissions as suggested to fix both issues. i wanted to try a post here before i re-installed OS X (whilst perserving files and user settings - in the hope that might fix it).
Any suggestions??

Hi Rachel
This has been discussed here:
software update check stalls posted by baltwo
It may be your solution too.
regards roam

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I've also posted this in the "PowerPC G4 & G5" forum...
My G4 has been behaving a little odd this past week. I first noticed it when i went to use software update (as usual).. it all downloaded then when it went to the next stage it said there was an error, trp repairing the permissions on the file.. (below).. and try again -
"private/tmp/501/temporaryitems/com.apple.softwareupdate"
i've been into disk utility to verrify and repair permissions, i've shut down and re-started my mac.
Not sure if it's connected, but also just as recent i keep getting an 'error whilst printing" message every time, and from all programmes i try to print from. It lets me save as PDF... but just not 'print'. i have my printers over a LAN server, and they are printing from other computers on the network, and i open 'printer setup utility' and the printers are there, i can see ink levels and i can 'stop printing' and 'start printing' without an error message.
Again i have tried repairing disk permissions as suggested to fix both issues. i wanted to try a post here before i re-installed OS X (whilst perserving files and user settings - in the hope that might fix it).
Any suggestions??

Hi Rachel
This has been discussed here:
software update check stalls posted by baltwo
It may be your solution too.
regards roam

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