Updated to 10.4.5 Wait to back up??

Hi All,
This is possibly a goofy question, but I'll ask it anyway. I just updated (Friday the 17th) to 10.4.5 and everything is working fine. I took a minute to repair the permissions on the volume (before and after the update, just 'cause it only takes a second), and used the update from "Software Update" as I was just updating from 10.4.4. Anyway, here's the real question:
Since it appears that some people are having problems that they seem to think are related to 10.4.5, do you think that it might be a good idea for me to hold off on making a bootable clone of my drive for awhile (say, a week)to make sure that everything works well before I replace the clone on my external HD in favor of the new incarnation?
I have a 250 GB firewire drive (it's a LaCie), so there is plenty of room on there, I guess that in theory I could just make a clone of 10.4.5 in another partition and have them both available in case something goes haywire on my internal drive, and I don't want to trust the new clone either. But that sort-of seems like overkill (paranoia?) to me, so I thought that I would appeal to the high priests and priestesses of OS X before making a move.
I usually back everything up on Sundays, but I think that I can safely wait for some advice this week.
TIA for any insights,
Kent

In my opinion I wouldn't. However I am not a very paranoid person about that kind of stuff. I have been using Mac's for years and never had a software related crash. I think that the update to 10.4.5 is pretty reliable, and I haven't heard of any major problems that it causes. However on the off chance that something did happen, it's better to be safe than sorry. A week waiting probably wouldn't hurt.

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