Well, fudge.
They installed, did the reboot, then came the configuring, and it then did another auto-reboot, then it finally booted to Windows normally.
Went to WU updates history and saw this mess:
whut the hay??
So, it seems to have rejected all five optional updates?
That's very odd.
Computer is running just fine though, so I say skip the lot of 'em as they are optional anyways.