Snow Leopard 10.6.8 Combo update problem

I have an older Black MacBook from 2008 (4,1). I was always on 10.6.6 as I only really did use this machine for live on stage performance and it has been rocksolid. I decided to to apply the 10.6.8 combo update finally. Everything went smooth but then I got a few messages saying that extensions weren't installed properly. I googled up the issue and I keep seeing the common response of "Uninstall Vuze" of other torrent applications. But I have never had any of those installed on this machine. I then saw a different answer that instructed me to repair disk permissions, restart and apply the combo update again.
This did extuinguish 3 of the error messages I saw but I still have 1 extension error hanging around which is a "N-Mon.kext" extension error. What does this affect? Will my laptop be unstable on stage now?
I have no idea how to get rid of this and I decided to finally post after searching for an answer all over the web and in the these forums. I want to avoid reinstallation of everything because I have so many programs and plugins on this machine.

This may help:
Installing or updating Snow Leopard:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Snow_Leopard_Installation_Instructions.pdf

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You first must upgrade to Snow Leopard. In order to upgrade to Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks you first must upgrade to Snow Leopard. Your model should be able to run Mavericks which you can download for free.
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You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
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Two bugs, one affecting Apple's Mac platform and another attacking Microsoft's Windows, exploit certain Flash player vulnerabilities to install malware onto users' systems, reports ArsTechnica. While users of other operating systems like Linux have yet to report attacks, Adobe's advisory notes the exploit affects all platforms.
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