Mac OS X Update (10.5.1) Failure

Hi all. Just purchased my first Macbook over a week ago now and everything's been running fine apart from one slightly worrying issue.
Whenever I run Software Update, I'm having trouble getting the 10.5.1 update for Leopard. It will ask for a password, restart and start installing.
However, the installer is freezing at "Initializing Install" with the progress bar just showing a tiny amount of progress and not moving. I have tried installing about 4 times now and leaving it for a couple of hours each time but no luck at all. I end up having to use Apple-Q to just quit and return to login without the update being applied.
Normally, I wouldn't be too bothered about an update but when it's an OS update which is supposed to fix numerous security and stability issues, you can understand why I'm anxious to get this fixed. Any ideas why this might be the case and how would I go about sorting this out?
Regards,
Will

Bad news... I've attempted to install again and it didn't work. Now I can't log in though; think i've managed to corrupt my FileVault information by quitting the update. I'm getting a messgage telling me I can't log on because of an unknown error with FileVault.
I've tried running disk utility from the OS X Cd but it said it can't find any problems.
I REALLY don't want to reformat the disk; i'll lose quite a few documents and programs so if there are any suggestions, please let me know.

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