Software Update from Leopard to Tiger!?

Please forgive this newbe.
This evening I checked for updates for my brand new OS x 10.5 Mac, and two items were returned. One for iPhoto and one for 10.4.11 Tiger.
Not knowing any better and hoping that the software would do the right thing, I just clicked on ok, (entered the password), and off it went. Before I knew it, I had been upgraded from 10.5 to 10.4.11
Help!
I do have all the installation disks, etc, so I can reinstall 10.5, iWork, etc, but is there a better way?
Thanks
Jim, ns2k

Because when I check system profiler; software; it shows "Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2167)"
It was a 10.5 machine until this evening
The update size was about 105MB and required a restart after (if that means anything)
I am more used to Windows, where restart is (or was until recently) required for almost everything

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