Software update - Why? "An Unexspected error occurred"

I remember this problem from last time i installed Snow Leopard from scratch, i found a fix someone did that i just had to run on the machine, and then i was able to use Mac update again without errors.
It has something to do with the filesizes of the updates, that makes them fail
I can install iLife, airport and other small updates, but the cummulative updates fail
I tried all the obvious fixes like using the disk tool to repair permissions, deleted the update cache, but nothing has helped..
HELP ME!!

You could try to just download the COMBO update through safari on the apple website.

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