Updating from 10.6 to 10.6.8 Snow Leopard

Hi everyone,
I am wanting to install Lion but of course I can't do that straight from Leopard, If I install Snow Leopard 10.6 or 10.6.1, can I just download the 10.6.8 update and skip all the others? I have capped internet which is why I am asking. What's the difference between a regular update & a combo update (apart from the huge download size difference).
Cheers!

You can absolutely; I would also suggest that instead of doing it via Software Update, you go to the Apple download page and download the combo updater 10.6.6 (that is the version the Mac App Store was included with. After you have that, go ahead and update to 10.6.8, again using the combo updater.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349
(this is the link to the 10.6.6 update combo)
And, the difference between a combo and regular update is: with a combo, you can go from 10.6.1 to 10.6.8, with a regular update, you can only move up one, i.e. from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2.

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