Sunfire X2250 endless restarting after putting on all 'security' updates

Hello all, yeserday I did a fresh Solaris install and once that was done i ran updatemanager. I selected only the 'security' updates. They downloaded and then installed. I then got a screen prompted me to reboot, so i ticked the box and let the machine do its thing. So the machine goes through and installs the remaining patches and the reboots. Upon reboot right after grub where i select Solaris to boot i get the Sun solaris copyright screen and right after that a bunch of 'unknown symbol' messages all over the place. The machine doesn't even get back to the desktop or login and enters maintenace mode. I was stuck at this point, I didn't know what to do and couldn't go any further and so I did a complete reinstall of the OS again. Once it came back up I again ran updatemanager and selected only the 'security' updates. It did the same thing again! upon the shutdown/reboot sequence the system hangs again, endless reboot loop. Why are these basic security patches messing up the machine? is there a known bad patch that bonks everything? I now have everything reinstalled again (3rd OS reinstall) and it's running great but i'm scared to run the patches again. Can anyone please help or provide an explaination? thank you very much in advance

Thanks for your reply, scapesuiter.
I suppose i can rule out third party software, as, after i reinstalled my OS after the first freezing (after 2007-003), i did not add anything else. At that point there was nothing on my computer but what came on the original install disks. I tried downloading and installing 2007-003 again and the same thing happened, and i had to reinstall again.
However, i do have 1GB RAM that i did not order from Apple. My computer originally came with 512 but i bought more some time ago (can't remember exactly when).
I also bought a new hard drive, also not from Apple, at around the same time.
But i should say again that i've had no problems since getting the new hardware, other than with these particular security updates (2007-003 and 2006-007). All the other security updates went well, as well as all other software updates.
(I also did a hardware check with my Apple Hardware Test disk and it indicated that everything was working fine.)
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Ti 800MHz 1GBRAM 100GB Internal Drive

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