My Macbook Pro - will not update the software update - it freezes

when prompted to update the software - currently I am on ver 10.5.5 - it asks to restart the computer and install - I continue then the screen freezes and the installation bar has hardly moved - I have no way of shutting the computer down - I have to take out the battery to get it to start again - Can someone help

Rather than update through Software Update (which in your case will run the incremental 10.5.6 updater) download the 10.5.6 combo updater from Apple web site and use that. Repair Permissions before and after.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1056comboupdate .html

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