Help Please: Slow To Restart After Update

My family member got his Macbook in August 2006 but rarely if ever did any updates. I ran Software Update today and there were a lot of things listed so I decided to do it in steps. First, there were a couple of firmware updates which downloaded then I was returned to the Software Update window. I then selected the 10.4.11 update. After installing that, it said I should restart, which I agreed to.
Now, however, it has come back with the apple in the middle of the screen and the little spinning thing below it and it has been doing that for at least 30 minutes so far. I think I can hear the disk spinning, unless that's just a fan.
The machine is slow as it has the small amount of memory that it came with, but is this normal? Should I just let it keep going or should I kill it and try to restart?
Thanks.

Well, I think I got it to work based on input from another forum. I shut the MacBook down and rebooted. Then I did the firmware updates by going directly to the Utilities folder and in turn double clicking on each update and following the directions there.

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