Patches with pre and or post patch scripts not executable -- why?

In my frustration with update manager hangs I have had to kill processes and restart and even manually unjar files and patchadd. Sometimes I run across the error that the pre or post patch scripts are not executable. I have in the past chmod 744 and patchadd then applies the patch. This has happened several times in my latest patch update. I also had a patch ( X11) that implied a lack of entitlement but the manual patchadd showed that the real problem was a missing prerequisite patch.
My questions are:
1. is this lack of executable permission on scripts ( pre and post) by design and am I missing the correct procedure?
2. missing prerequisite scripts? why?
3. out of frustration --- IS THIS PATCHING UTILITY THE BEST THAT SUN CAN DO?

Update Manager is sometimes a little flaky, particularly on unpatched systems (as it uses many different utilities). I would suggest that if you are having problems then you should use smpatch instead - it's not really any more difficult to use and is often much quicker.
If a patch has a script that is not executable that is not a fault of updatemanager, but a fault with the patch itself (being archived with incorrect settings) or possibly your umask setting, which should ideally be globaly set to 0022 prior to patching to prevent problems during extraction and application.
If updatemanager has complained about a lack of entitlement I would tend to believe that this was the case, check the contents of your entitlement file:
# cat /var/sadm/spool/cache/entitlement/*entitlement_clientYou may be missing SolarisAllUpdates or other entitlements - please post the output.
Sun do offer other patching tools, but what is best for one person/company may not be the best for all. There is also the possibility that you don't have it setup correctly - I would ask that you run the attached script and upload the output file generated to our [Support Uploads|http://supportuploads.sun.com/] site.

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