Mistakenly Re-installed Software

I have just bought a Macbook Pro. I stupidly re-installed the Snow Leopard Software onto the brand new Mac. After I did it asked me to install the updates, it has taken about 24 hours for the updates to install. Will this cause any problems? Have I wiped anything off that I will not be able to get back. I am brand new to Macs and really just want to know if I have done anything irrecoverably wrong.
Any advice/reassurance would be much appreciated.

As far as I can see my iMovies, iPhotos are all there, I did reinstall my applications as well (as least I am thorough in my stupidity).
LOL, well, one of the benefits (and weaknesses) of doing this kind of reinstall as a troubleshooting technique is that you don't have to reinstall your applications!
Concerning the time to update, I though that the 24 hours was a long time as well, but my Mac email was attempting to synchronize my Mac mail to another mail account and was having to struggle with over 6000 emails, also we have a relatively slow internet connection. Would this be the reason for the slow updates?
Probably, yes. Downloading the updates on a slow connection would have taken a long time, and even longer if Mail was trying to download 6000+ messages at the same time. I can remember in the early days of Mac OS X, when I connected via modem, leaving my machine on overnight so it could download just one update.

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