OSX lion will not finish current software update? keeps freezing on moving items into place on

This is the 2nd time I have tried this update. I keeps freezing at about 90% progress
Any ideas?
The update fro memory is pages safari etc, its about a week old.

Manually DL them from http://support.apple.com/downloads/ and then try installing them.

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Irelander,
Glad to hear you are back up and running. Please let us know ASAP if you run into further problems.
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