Hi, ib - thank you for your help. I don't really understand. You said, "If you downloaded the standalone installer, and it's the Combo updater, it should update the system." Yes it said combo. But that's all I know. > That could have been the problem -- but if you didn't install it after > downloading it initially, it wouldn't have been installed -- and > Software Update wouldn't have shown you 10.2.4. When I went to install it, the instructions said to go through the system prefs>Software update>update now. And I had to be online for that. I've never had to install something like that before, but I figured it must be some new fangled thing... So now my question is, if I downloaded it, and it's in there (somewhere) how do I find it on my machine? How do I go about installing it correctly? Thanks, Ally lbdesigns at earthlink.net wrote: > > On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 10:44 PM, Ally Maddox wrote: > >> The last mac I had was an LCIII. Then I made the mistake of buying a >> PC. So it was a lot of years between my first mac and this one. > > > Ah! Well, that is awhile. :o)