How to verify software update?

I recently purchased a MacBook Pro, and did a successful fire wire brain transfer from my Powerbook. In the course of setting up my MacBook, I tried Software Update several times, and each time got a message that it couldn't find the update server. My network connection is working fine. This has now been going on for several days, and I doubt that the update server has been down that whole time. I'm experiencing the same thing with my Powerbook, which I've successfully updated numerous times with Software Update. I'm wondering if a configuration file got corrupted on the Powerbook, and then was transferred in corrupted state to the MacBook. What sort of sanity checks can I do at this point? Thanks!

My question doesn't concern so much the process of updating one computer from another as how to diagnose the problem when Software Update perpetually reports a network problem. Does anyone have any insights on how I might diagnose this, given that it's been five days now, my network seems fine, and I have no firewalls? The added information that I can give is that I have not yet succesfully done any software update from my new MacBook, after five days. Thanks!

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