Installer won't install updates (10.7.3 Combo/ AirPort Utility)

I was wondering why Software Update (or whatever it is called on the English GUI) didn't display the 10.7.3 or the Airport Utility updates yet on my iMac (27" mid2011 / OS 10.7.2).
So I tried to run Software Update manually. Software Update tells me that there is no new software available for my Mac.
Next I tried to download the Combo Update to 10.7.3, Airport Utility 5.6 and 6.0. Turns out that I can't install any of those updates manually either.
When I have to define the location to install the update all my hard disks have the warning sign attached and the following message is displayed:
Mac OS X Combined / Airport Utility /... can't be installed on this disk. An error occured while evaluating JavaScript for the package.
Tried repairing permissions, rebooting, no sucess so far.
Any help would be appriciated!

Oh god, just figured out what the problem was...
Booted up from the recovery partition and there it said "Can't install Lion on Server partition." I knew instantly what happened.
A few weeks ago I installed Snow Leopard as guest in Parallels via the ServerVersion.plist workaround. Forgot to delete the file I copied via Terminal... no wonder Softwareupdate couldn't install anything since it thought this was a Server. Thanks, your suggestion led to the resolution of this problem.

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