Partition Corruption after Update Install

The last two times I've attempted to run an Apple software upgrade installation I've ended up with my Hard disk partition getting hosed and having to repartition (and OS reinstall). Has anyone else have this problem?
BTY: In both cases the software upgrade failed to run successfully, the last time it failed in the OS 10.4.9 upgrade.

Thanks Hal.
I thought I could delete, but wasn't confident.
I have deleted them and no problems :-)

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Frederiks-MacBook-Pro:~ frederik$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         299.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                200.0 GB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Ohne Titel             *299.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 5F59958C-E8AF-4C32-A646-D58D15CE379E
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
Frederiks-MacBook-Pro:~ frederik$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 4D75F3DC-C99C-47A3-9B55-3262BE4D4180
    =========================================================
    Name:         Ohne Titel
    Status:       Online
    Size:         299417849856 B (299.4 GB)
    Free Space:   118784 B (118.8 KB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume B71D0BA3-8C42-4783-8595-6321D8F9B17F
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    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     299417849856 B (299.4 GB)
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    +-> Logical Volume Family 7F506808-72AD-4CE5-A316-897C84DDC722
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            Yes
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 5F59958C-E8AF-4C32-A646-D58D15CE379E
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          299065409536 B (299.1 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
            LV Name:               Ohne Titel
            Volume Name:           Ohne Titel
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
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Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 977105059
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          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 584800488      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
585210128    1269760      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
586479888       1776
586481664 390621184      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
977102848       2179
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header
Frederiks-MacBook-Pro:~ frederik$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127 14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF   25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 584800488] HFS+
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