Need advice RE: Firmware update

Hi all,
Need a little advice. My daughter came home from school with her macbook Core2 mid 2007.
She seems to have installed the EFI update but it keeps showing up in SU when ran. I can only assume she did not follow the instructions to complete the update on reboot. It shows three separate installs in the Software Update Application preferences and the update utility is in her apps folder. How should I proceed? Should I just launch the update.app and go from there or re-download and install the firmware from apple?
Thanks

I think what happened is when SU would check for updates she would just click "install all" and then do a normal reboot instead or running the updater.app utility. The updater was most likely closed when she clicked "restart". SU preference showed three different cases of her installing the firmware update along with numerous other updates including 10.4.11 and all appear to have taken. But System Profiler shows the boot ROM has not been updated to the most current one. Thus it kept coming up every 2 weeks. She is a little unclear as to what she did after the updates. So my best bet is to assume it was downloaded and installed and for me to run the FirmwareUpdater.app in the utilities folder now to make the change, is that correct?
Thanks,
Frank

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