The Culprit Unmasked: Login & KeyChain Update Version 1

I can identify the precise moment when my Intel iMac when berserk with Steve's blue screen of death.
I had done a clean install of Leopard on my Intel iMac 2.16GHz 2.5RAM. Everything was going great. UNTIL I checked for updates and installed the Login & Keychain update version 1. That required a reboot, and upon reboot, I, like others, could not get past the Setup routine.
So, for me, it is the Apple upgrade for the Login & Keychain update that totally screwed my computer.
The only way around it, for me, was to do a boot from the DVD by booting while pressing the C key.
I don't know why Apple is blaming 3rd Party apps for causing Leopard to fail. For me, it was Apple's own Login & KeyChain update. I had done a clean Leopard install, so I had no baggage from previous installs.

p/p/s
I should mention how I recovered from disaster.
By the time my Leopard install was hijacked by Apple's KeyChain update, I had transferred to my Mac some unique data that I did not have backups. So, when Leopard crashed, I was in disaster mode.
The friendly fold at macworld.com forums showed me how to connect a 2nd Mac to my ailing Mac using a Firewire cable, making the sick Mac to operate in target mode. I was able to read the hard disk of the ailing Mac like an external drive, and retrieve all the date. That was a massive relief.
The night before, I had spent a sleepless night waiting in queue for Apple's help desk.

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