Vista Service Pack 2 will not install

I have tried everything that I have found on Google and nothing has worked. Called Lenovo...........told to check Documents 66956 and 72758.
I did that and updated the ThinkVantage software then installing SP2 as told by tech support.............NO GOOD!
Any suggestions...........someone must have figured it out............
Thanks

Hi,
encountered the same problem on my T500/Vista-32.
I successfully installed SP2 a first time via WU.
I then somehow managed to create a slight m.. :-) on my machine and decided to run Rescue and Recovery which led me back to SP1.
I finally succeeded reinstalling SP2 (not via WindowsUpdate-got stuck at some 14%) after several failures by temporarily disconnecting from the network, disabling my internet security program and closing everything in systray (for reasons I ignore, this wasn't necessary on first install).
Cheers,
woofy

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