Software Update is broken

Hi,
I just installed Ilife 2008 which came bundled with my mac.
It's a slight older version (I received a tiger installation disk with an upgrade disk to leopard, the ilife is on the tiger installation).
After running the install, I can not launch Imovie (version of osx does not match) and when I try to update (using software update) I recive a message saying that there are updates avilable, but I can not see them (nothing is listed) and the install button can not be pressed.
Please advise.
Guy Nesher

Software update normally downloads and uncompresses the actualy installer files into /tmp. It then deletes then as soon as it is done.
I don't know of a way to tell Software update to keep the actual downloaded files, it is designed to clean up after itself when done.
You can always go to www.apple.com and download updates manually if you want to archive them.

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