Start up problems after 10.6.2 upgrade

After upgrading to 10.6.2 my computer restarted and hung up on a circle with a line through it. I restarted, the same. i reinstalled Snow Leopard and can now run normally. I ran Disk Utility and it said everything was fine.
I want to keep my iBook Pro running up to date software, but I want to solve this first. According to a document on the support website, the circle with a slash through it means, "could not load boot.efi, or some other issue" and I have no idea what that means or what to do about it.
Thoughts?

That's a little helpful. Thanks. I did use Disk Warrior a couple of years ago but stopped when it stopped launching, giving me some error code I couldn't decipher.
Now what do I need to do about? Will the problem reoccur if I try to upgrade again?

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