Traveling with Tiger, revisited

It occurs to me, I never finished asking this question and the original has been archived:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1734821&tstart=0
I have made, and we traveled with, a copy of our retail install OS X disk.
Our install disk is version 10.4.6. Is the assumption that if we have to reinstall OS X, I use the disk, reinstall to 10.4.6 and then do an update of OS on the road?
Is there a way to avoid this update step and make an install disk of 10.4.11?
Thanks,
Mrs H

Limnos wrote:
Not an install disc of 10.4.11 You could burn the combo updater (and other updaters too if you wish) onto a separate disc and take that too.>
Would that involve installing from the install disk and then going to the combo updater as I did when I initially updated to 10.4.11?
I'd just get a portable drive to do complete bootable backups on the road if they are that critical in what you do.>
Good point though one more piece of electrical equipment is more than I care to contemplate. However, your point "if they are that critical" leads me to wonder - could I just continue to work using the OS version on my install disk until I get back home. The work we do on the road is mostly writing (Using Office 2004) or Safari searches. The photo stuff we do with iLife on the road and save Photoshop for home.
Do you know if any of these would be troubled by reverting to the older version of the OS (10.4.6)?
Thanks,
Mrs H

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