yeah, I haven't been able to successfully upgrade to 10.5.5 yet either... it freezes half-way through the upgrade process every time... I'm so frustrated from having to re-do my system 3 times over now... ugh!

EDIT: Finally!... ASU wasn't correctly applying the patches the first few times it downloaded to modify. This time it did.
29 of 29 visited files were successfully patched.
79 of 79 found patches were successfully applied.

Good to go.

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