Well I guess I am really lucky… after waiting for 2hrs (maybe more) I decided it wasn’t going to get any further – and so I pressed ctrl+apple+power.

It shut down…..

Then power again to boot up – it rebooted once (by itself) and then on the second boot up my background came up.

About this Mac says “Version 10.5.3″ so.. I wonder what happened.

So weird…

Looks like I have the same problem as the original post… says “Installing 1 Item” and “Patching files” and is waiting for ever and ever :(

Gerald, I like the way you tried to justify that. When you try to start your computer and it won’t turn on I think it’s fair to say that “it doesn’t just work”…end of story.

Considering the fact that Jobs must have some sort of Eye of Sauron system I’m surprised someone didn’t secretly switch your MBP for a new one when it went for repair.

You seem to be exiting the reality distortion field so I’m expecting something strange to happen and you getting a replacement.

I had the EXACT same problem, updated my iMac to 10.5.3 and SysUIS crashed every time i got to the desktop. I’m currently reinstalling OS X, and I have my backup ready. Thank Steve for Time Machine!

BTW, I’ve owned this iMac (my first mac) for just under year now and this has been my very first complaint ever, while things like this constantly happened to me with xp (vista not so much). When you get to the point that explorer.exe crashes every two minutes or so I’ll gladly deal with a little update bugginess once a year ^^

Just updated my Vista machine and everything went fine.

James- I think you’ve caught the same Apple curse as me…
This update went just fine with me, but my Apple gear has given me a lot of headaches lately.

I just installed it and was wondering what was going on. The system restarted twice then the screen and keyboard kept dimming… I’d raise them up and they’d dim again… and the hard drive kept spinning and spinning. All seems ok now though. But can I say YIKES!!!

You really fight to keep this apple crap running…

jk, using “bricking” is misleading. To brick an electronic device is to ruin the firmware or other part of the device disabling it to boot up properly at all. What you did is damamged your operating system infrastructure.

Its bloody hard to brick a mac unless you upgrade the firmware with hacked firmware.