the honeymoon is over, the new car smell has faded

[rone]

My Mac experience has quickly turned to shit.

• The M$ Office updater downloaded a huge update and then failed to install it.  I tried again and the result was the same.  Also, the file was nowhere to be found.  I ended up downloading and installing it manually.
• The OS X 10.4.6 update downloaded and failed about a quarter through the installation.  The file was nowhere to be found even though the failure message claimed i could locate it in the Finder.  I tried the updater again and now it hangs during "Checking for updates...", with the progress bar about 25% full.  I downloaded the update manually, but when it says "Select a volume for installation", my hard drive never appears.  It's just blank.
• I downloaded and installed the latest iPod update.  After a reboot, iTunes ran fine.  After another reboot, iTunes crashed when i ran it, and when i reopened it, it ate my library.

Needless to say, none of this ever happened to me on Windows.  So if any of you Macheads have any tips for dealing with getting the OS update to work, that would be swell.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, it says it wants OS X 10.2.8-10.3, but i'm on 10.4. I felt it reasonable to assume that'd be fine. I know it won't work on an Intel Mac, but this is a G4.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

"I felt it reasonable to assume that'd be fine."

A little Googling suggests that versions of Virtual PC prior to 7.0.2 did not support Tiger.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

You strictly need VPC 7.0.2 or later for 10.4.1 or later.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/misc/vpc7_0_2.xml&secid=100&ssid=3&flgnosysreq=True

Microsoft soft-pedals this in their own documentation where they can be bothered to mention it at all, so I blame them. I don't remember Connectix being this mealy-mouthed about upgrade requirements before Microsoft assimilated them.