Software updates driving me NUTS

Question

My software updater is out of control. Sometimes it pops up every five minutes, and going through the whole update-and-restart process doesn't seem to appease it. I've changed my system preferences to only update weekly and to automatically run important updates, but then the stupid update icon still pops up and when I check back in system preferences, it's set back to "check for updates daily". I'm so annoyed.

Answer 1

Francine Schwieder wrote:
You probably aren't getting any replies because no one who has read your thread has a clue. I know I don't. The only thing that occurs to me is to create a new Admin user, don't add anything to it, no fonts, no contextual menu items, no startup items, nothing at all that Apple doesn't automatically create. Log out of your regular account and into the new one. Go to System Prefs and set the "Check for updates" schedule. Work for awhile in that account and see what happens. If it behaves normally then there is something wrong with your regular account, and you may be able to track down the problem there and fix it. If things are incorrect in the test account, then the problem is at the system level and frankly I don't know where to look to fix it. It might be faster and easier to just do an archive and install. Be sure you properly backed-up first.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder
Francine,
Thanks for the reply.
In the new user, I'm getting:
4/23/08 8:45:45 PM Software Update[8781] Package Authoring Error: installation-check results requires a message
So I think I may have some corrupt file in a cache. Is there a place to clean these out?