Well I hate to say this.... but a good SQUID caching server with maximum object size raised considerably... would have made it VERY quick and painless... Especially if you did them all at the same time.... or somewhere close... I have been using squid at the College for a long time now. It makes "Windows Update" Fly... literally. sometimes 20MB D/Ls (notably the .NET update for W2K) be done downloading in about 8 seconds. Another 8 minutes to install and you were able to "reboot and apply more" updates... again lightning fast.. once the first one was done.

Plus, you could have just D/L'd the full SP and made a location to just "click" and get the files....

Then run the updates from there...

Dunno. Your call obviously.

But then again, you don't have a large, fast SQUID cache-store (U160 SCSI 4 Channel) with 1.4GB of Ram to spare do you now? *GRIN*