SAP Installation Server not patching client pc's after patching itself

Hi
We have setup Installation Server and used it to deploy SAP GUI successfully to client pc's. We encountered a problem in trying to update the installation server with patch level 22. After the patch SAP reported that numerous files or folders were missing on the installation source. Also the client pc GUI's would then display a message saying that a newer version of the GUI was available and would prompt for a response. "Yes" would appear to reinstall the GUI and would give an error afterwards and a "no" would do nothing, only asking to reinstall the next time round.
We tried to remove the installation server and reinstall it using a different share name. After removing the old share the client GUI's would no longer prompt but also do not update correctly. We again tried to reinstall the installation server to the old share name and although the clients do not prompt, they also do not update; plus the installation server still shows a patch 22 as being applied!
Is there any way to roll back the installation server completely (i.e. before the patch level)? If not what could I check to make sure that the installation server at least updates the client GUI's correctly?

We did some tests again to try piece together what happened. The only thing that seems to have happened is that someone had removed the installation package that the clients were using although we can't be sure if that was the problem.
We were about to reinstall on the share when we decided to try to update the patch level once more. The strange thing seems that after we patched the Installation Server to level 23 the clients were responding correctly to the IS again! Since then they have been able to update with seemingly no issues.

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