Leopard do not boot after sotware update

Last past days I did the routine software update (it should be about last Friday). Not sure what it contained but it was a bigger than ususal: itunes, some security patches and a couple of other components. I did it and my laptop was working afterwards. I cann't rememeber whether a reboot was required, i think it was. About that day I also unistall using the uninstall software the trial version of SnapzProxX. Not sure about the sequence of these two actions.
I can not recall any problem just after doing that. But then Monday night I shut down my laptop and back on Tuesday the laptop took like 15 minutes to boot and got in a useless status once finished without even recognizin my airport settings and many other componenets.
Any advice on what to do?
PS In the attibutes of this post I wrote 10.5.4 but not sure what I got, definitely I am in the most up to date version. But I can not log in again to check anything.
By the way, I did boot in safe mode and the problems were exactly the same
Now I am travelling and my laptop has been left behind. So no chances to try anzthing on my laptop for the next days/weeks (uncertain when I will be back)

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