To Do, or NOT To Do the 10.5.6 upgrade? Or just wait till I have no choice?

Hello Everyone, it has been @ 2 months since my transition to a Mac, and I love it. It's basically a rock solid OS, and has many benefits that you won't find in Windows.
I love the fact that Time Machine and Super Duper are protecting my data and backups. I can actually boot up from an external Super Duper clone and be right back in business in minutes. That alone is worth the price of admission. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but it sure makes me not want to go back to Windows
Now my question is, and I'm sure I'm not alone, we Level 1 & level 2 users read online that update 10.5.6 is out. "Yipee", however my dilemma is that my Macbook is now tweaked and running great with 10.5.5
You know what I mean, everything just works great, Internet is fast, no applications crashing, daily nightly clones and backups going as scheduled, Parallels and XP hum along, the laptop doesn't overheat, and it just allows me to do my work, instead of spending nights troubleshooting issues or quirks.
I decided to go and have a look in the forums and online before updating to 10.5.6, and I see that oodles and oodles of people have had problems like: the download, systems crashes, time machine errors, and booting problems etc ...and so on.
Then I read on MacNN that there is 21 security flaws that are fixed with this update, hmmm, sounds like an important update, BUT, I don't want to spend a week troubleshooting all kinds of quirks and issues by going to 10.5.6
*So, do I just wait until the day that I have no choice to update, or do I take the plunge now?*
Or do I hang on, and wait till Snow Leopard.
What do you folks do in this situation? *Why mess with it if it ain't broken...*
Looking forward to the replies from the many wise users and wisdom found in the forum.
IAN...

When everything is running well is the time to update.
Updating when your Mac is having problems is a recipe for disaster and then you arrive at this worldwide online hospital for sick Macs
Back up > Remove iPods, spare HDs and assorted peripherals > Download Combo updater from Apple > Restart > Then install and be patient through two Automatic restarts.
No problems here.

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