Urgent Problem with 10.4.9 update

I was running flawlessly with 10.4.8 and did the Software Update to 10.4.9 around 11.00 a.m. yesterday. All good and 'seemed' fine upon restart.
Then at 4.00 I was working and the screen went blank. Thought video or monitor had died (23 cinema). Had nothing crucial running or unsaved so I restarted (held power button in--possibly mistake) and rebooted. Grey screen came up with spinning icon. Kept spinning kept spinning. After a few minutes fan starts to get faster and louder.
Reboot again. Same thing.
Reboot again. same thing.
Reboot with option key and install 10.4.6 from DVD onto firewire drive.
Boot up on 10.4.6 drive.
Investigate. Zap PRAM and reset SMU (tried both pulling plug 2 mins and pressed green button under memory on logic board).
Still no boot from 10.4.9 drive.
Have backed up critical files onto firewire but am now at a loss as to how to get machine to boot off 10.4.9 drive.
Definitely seems a coincidence that this happened after 10.4.9 update. Would seriously suggest backup and redundancy procedures before update just in case.
Can anyone please help with suggestions??

There were some others with problems that were reported to MacIntouch: Reader Reports 10.4.9 so you are not "alone" with having problems.
While some 3rd party can be terrible (Norton) Disk Warrior and Applejack are safe and essential. Onyx is free but I prefer Tiger Cache Cleaner, but ONLY if there is a problem and a fix.
There are things that can be done from the command line in Single User Mode, which is too much for most, and Applejack puts a nice menu and auto run around those commands, but it has to be installed in the first place.
The trouble with using older versions of Disk Utility - it can be "out of date" even if it is Tiger (10.4.6 is fine).
In all honesty, if you have a spare backup drive, I would do a full clean install and update that (Apple only) to 10.4.9 or 10.4.8, you're call.
Where 3rd party utilities get in the way is when they are installed, run in the background, even if all they are suppose to do is monitor the health of your system (temps, smart status, backup script, etc). Avoid those like the plague.
Run updates in Safe Boot Mode. And use SAFE BOOT with shift key if you are ever faced with having to restart.
If you want to run an update, repair the drive ahead of time. Even verify the drive will at least force any unsaved changes to disk (which is why it takes a minute or two to begin).
A small 20GB partition for your emergency boot drive - essential - can be anywhere but ideally on another drive - that is off line otherwise.
You can also backup your system to disk images. Another essential, and perhaps you use it, would be SuperDuper. Reviews and tests seem to confirm that it is safer and does a better job of preserving metadata and create a good clone that will be bootable afterwards. Tri-Backup 4.04 is another.

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From: nxgame<[email protected]>
To:novell.support.zenworks.endpoint-security-management
Date: 12/11/2010 3:06 pm
Subject: problem with AUTO PUBLISH nd update NEW POLICY to Client .
To : who may concern , which really need urgent help .
after few days of setting up the ZESM , but then i was unable to find
is there any setting which can "AUTO PUBLISH " into the Client side .
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Because , we find it that to make it silent update without the CLIENT
side need to manually click the UPDATE POLICY , so i would wonder is
there any way to have the AUTO UPDATE the policy from SERVER side ?
thank alot first .
From : NX ( which this few days has been keep on try and explore the
ZESM 3.5 , 4.0 , 4.1IR )
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nxgame
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