OS 10.3.9 not allowing updates or software installation

I'm not sure what's going on, but my year old Powerbook G4 is not allowing me to do automatic updates, or to install new software. I just got an iPod, but I cannot use it because I cannot install the software. Help? I'm not getting any error messages, except that the installation could not be completed. It seems to be able to download the updates, but not install them.
Thanks, Anne

Anne,
I have one question and one suggestion for troubleshooting.
You say that you cannot install new software. Do you mean that you cannot install via Software Update? If you download a file from Apple's download site, and then double click on the disk image, does that also fail?
The suggestion - see if you can get some sort of error message from your console log file. To do that -
-start the console app from the utilities menu
- make sure that the console.log file pops up - if not, use the logs icon at the top left to select console.log
- run Software Update
- when it fails, it probably will write something to the log file
- if so, please copy and paste into another post
EMAC G4 1.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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