Snow Leopard Updates Not Working

I go to the Software update, it finds the various updates required for my mac, firmware, itunes n all that.
I say, install and restart.  A few pop ups open telling me to have at least 25% battery and my computer is going to restart, I confirm them all.
Then my computer just restarts as it would normally, I have to log in and nothing has happened.
Done it quite a few times now and nothing is being updated, just the same useless cycle of events.

If you are using just the battery you need to plug in to a wall socket to do this update.

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