I recently UN-installed XPsp3 because it made ~3 minute boot time.
...back to ~30 second.
Now I get some updates that won't install.
Update says it wants to install 8 items.
Then it says 5 items couldn't install.
When I try to download and install the updates manually, I get the missing installation branch message.
Then next boot, all 8 items want to be installed again.