My screens disappear to left or right  & double sign in on lion OSX 10.8.3

Can any one help me ? When I Mac boots or wakes from slpeep it shows 2 sign in screens  thats problem #1 EVEN if i ignore  one  i get on. #2 is  Ill be typng and move my mouse to the left ofr right in center of screen and my document disapeers. I use the f keys and still doesnt show up every once i awhile ill see a shaded out arrow but only a fraction of the time i just lost the same document 4 times I copied most of it but this is riduclass!
thank DK

By force-restarting, you killed the update, which was still in progress. (The restart was part of the update process, and the actual installation of the update would have happened after that.) You'll have to start over, including re-downloading it, I'm afraid.
As for why this might have happened, if it had truly frozen at the end of the download, most likely there's something corrupt in your system somewhere that caused it to hang up. You should repair the hard drive with Disk Utility, then go download and install the update manually from here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1640
That way, at least, if something goes wrong, you don't have to re-download the whole thing.

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