Software update screwed me too. Can I update from 9.2?

Hey guys,
I've been running Tiger on a G4 with no problems at all. After trying numerous times to install an PowerPC update that would freeze at the very end of installation, it finally finished and I restarted. Now, I get past the gray Apple and spinning gear thingy, but when the blue background with the staus bar comes up, it freezes without any progress on the staus bar. I'm sure it's something that I did or did not do correctly. However, I also have OS 9.2 on the machine which allows me to go in and access all my stuff. My question is: Can I download a stand alone installer while in 9.2 and have it update my version of Tiger or does it not work that way? To make it worse, I can't find my Tiger disc. The only restore discs I have are all pre-cat.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Well, I wouldn't use OS 9 unless you just need to salvage all of your personal data. Let's try to troubleshoot OS 10 and get it booting first before we use OS 9.
You have a few options here. The first, would be to boot into safe mode. You can do this by holding down the shift key during startup. This let's OS 10 boot in it's minimal form - so whatever is causing a conflict in the full startup may be resolved by doing a minimal startup. Safe boot also runs a behind-the-scenes disk check, so if it boots successfully, there is a chance that rebooting normally again would be successful.
If the reboot after safemode isn't successful, try booting in safemode again. Once you reach the desktop, go to your OS 10 hard drive and open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Disk Utility will allow you to repair the permissions on your drive, hopefully solving the problem. Once Disk Utility is open, select the volume from the left menu that contains OS 10 on it, and then from the +first aid+ tab select +repair permissions+. Once complete, go ahead and reboot normally and see if that fixes it.
If it still won't boot, we have one more option besides you purchasing an install disk. You can boot into single user mode and run fsck. You can boot into single user mode by holding command+s at startup. This will bring you to a UNIX prompt, in which you can run a built-in disk utility. Here is a link to the step-by-step process you should take in running fsck. You can scroll right down to "use fsck".
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
I hope this helps! Good luck, and let me know if you have anymore questions!

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64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=6 ttl=241 time=1470.410 ms
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64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=8 ttl=241 time=1629.117 ms
64 bytes from 17.254.0.91: icmp_seq=9 ttl=241 time=1482.781 ms
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