Reinstalling OSX on Macbook leopard 5.8

Hi there, I was thinking of doing a reinstall, I know I would need to back up and all of that, I have a macbook 2008 with leopard 5.8, my question is what else do I need to know, there were many updates over the years, how does that all work?
1) will the updates still be available to me?
2) when updating, would I be redownloading every update, or is there just one most current one that covers everything, like if there were 3 or 4 bug fixes for an application or utility or something, would I just need to download the most recent or all 3 prior as well?
3) I know it may be hard to guage but any loose estimates regarding how much time will be needed or some outline of what to expect would be much appreciated.
Many thanks.

Hi Niel,
I followed your advice and installed the OS 10.5.8 combo updater and Safari did not appear.  Next I downloaded Safari again and reinstalled it.  It kept crashing so then I downloaded the 10.5.8 update and now it is running but no browser window appears.  When I select File>New Window or File>New Tab it crashes and asks to relaunch.  I have also asked Safari to reset itself but that didn't help either.
Any further advice?
Thanks.
JOe

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