I have a plain new MacBook with a 250 Gigg partition, Im running bootcamp,I installed an new oem OS Win XP professional tha other day. Ive installed about 20 patches by Windows update, working fine, but after installing servi pack 3, the update loads down, but does not install updates. I do NOT have office2003, but office2007 installed1 person got this answerI do too

Common problem, ignore the title -Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP installationhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144 Another community answer from the Windows XP newsgroups