I can't get rid of an obsolete update

Running 3.6.16, my help menu shows "Apply Downloaded Update Now". If I select this, nothing much happens and FF asks to restart, upon which the Help menu still has the same item. I had to upgrade to 3.1.17 by hand. I want to know: what files (and where are they) do I delete to make "Check for Updates" work normally?

See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update (Software Update not working properly)
Remove the files in the updates and updates\0 folder. 
You may need to delete active-update.xml and updates.xml as well if present.
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
(%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox)

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