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So I went the keyword route with my title... anyway. I have 4 Macbooks here (lucky me), 3 are plugged into Samsung 19inch widscreens, one into a 19inch Sony. The one in the Sony has the .7 update, the others do not. The one connected to the Sony has decided it doesn't like the monitor and on start up just freezes in a pastel coloured blue screen unless I unplug the external monitor... then it starts fine.
Any ideas?

I heard that Apple re-released the 10.4.7 update for macintels. I would go to software downloads and get the 10.4.7 combo updater for Intel Macs, even if you don't need the combo install it instead of the standalone.
After install go through and do 'Repair Permissions' from 'Disk Utility'. Some will tell you otherwise but always do repair permissions after, and before some, installs.
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