Software Update caused freezing, Finder, and HD problems...

My weekly software update ran yesterday and it came back with a handful of updates so I clicked ok to install them and several required the system restart...as it was in the shutting down phase of restart it stalled on a screen that said updates installing and it did nothing... I left it for well over 3 hours and still nothing so I forced quit by holding in the power button...when I then restarted everything is super slow to respond and many applications don't work at all i.e. finder, mac HD, I can't select force quit...just a whole array of things not working correctly...when I try to go to the Apple menu and select restart or shut down nothing happens... I need help -I am not very Mac fluent.
thanks,

Hi! I'm having the same problems! Updated to 10.6.3 noticed that after the restart I got crash reports that the dock experienced bad access and restarted over and over again+the desktop pictures were changing like **** every second.
opened up Disc Utility and did HDD fix and repared permissions, the HDD no problems but loads of permissions issues. Ran it several times and then rebooted and started with the install CD and redid the Disc Util. and did another restart. It worked for a little while but soon again, quicklook crashes, and finder crashes, and I cannot start any apps at all, not even the terminal, nothing. I can open up the HDD and look around and throw stuff in the trash bin, but nothing more.
I've tried to throw away tiff, jpegs, movies,aiff, mp3, avi:s that were on the desktop, or in the dock. I have trashed several plists, preferences, pref-panes (plugins as perian etc) but nothing helps. Free disc space is 13.5 %.
I am writing this on my work computer mac book pro 2,53 GHz, 4GB and 10.6.3 no problems, but my own computer was originally a 10.5 system and then upgraded to SL.
Help me please! I cannot access any prefs, programs, apps or anything that requires starting up of anything. Starting up in safe mode does not do anything, still cannot start apps!
Help!
PLZ!

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