Software Update stuck for weeks now

I can't seem to find anyone else experiencing the same problem....
My Software Update has been "stuck" for weeks/months now. The progress bar modal is always on top, stating "Checking for new software...", and the progress bar itself is stuck at around 10% complete. This happens seemingly no matter what I do -- things I've tried (some obvious; some not-so-obvious):
- Rebooting
- Deleting my ~/Library/Preferences/*software update* files
- Deleting my /Library/Preferences/*software update* files
- I also tried deleting everything in /Library/Updates (there were some files in there) and that didn't seem to help either.
- Rebooting after those steps....
This has never happened to me before and it's just plain weird. Anyone seen this before?

I found this thread after I posted my question (sorry):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9312010
The one thing that isn't noted there is that you need to reboot after deleting the Cache file.

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