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Oh the Joy!
So couple days have passed now, and I've just been hitting "check for updates" now and then to see if anything looks different. Bingo. Today 3 of the 4 updates just vanished from the queue after checking for updates (not after installing them). These were the three Office 2007 updates in question. From what I can tell they were just pulled from update rather than replaced with something that works...so I would assume the security flaws still exist.
But wait there's more! The one windows security update that I also had trouble with was still in the list of available updates. I decided to take NoelDB's recommendation and start with the System Update Readiness Tool. This isn't the first time I've had to use this tool mind you. About 6 months ago I added a SSD to my system and did a fresh install. Even after having JUST installed windows, windows update starting having problems and refusing to work...so after some searching I found "SURT" and used it and in that case it fixed the problem. Today however it did not.
I ran SURT, when it was complete I installed the windows security update from windows update. As is has for days now, it installed successfully and still immediately told me the same update was available. I decided to reboot and see if the combination of using SURT, updating, then rebooting would help anything.
LOGIN PROCESS INITIALIZATION FAILURE!
Cool...Now my system won't boot all the way into windows. I tried safe mode and received the exact same error. The error message suggests checking the event viewer for details. That would probably be a great place to start except for the fact that I can't login to windows at all and therefore can't run event viewer. MScrewed!
I pulled out my trusty (hah...trusty) Windows 7 DVD, booted from it, chose "Repair" and used a system restore point to revert back to the point prior to using SURT. Thankfully this process worked and I can boot and login again. However I'm back to square one with the update still there and unwilling to install, except now I have great fear and disrespect for "System Update Readiness Tool" (SURT). Still, thank you for the advice NoelDB, I mean no disrespect to you for referring to that thread that suggests SURT and SFC. As I said, I've used it before with great success...but this time it was the opposite experience.
Do not run this program on your system without first making sure the System Restore is enabled, backing up your files, maybe make complete recovery image...or hey...just don't use it. I didn't fix the update problem, it only cause my system to be unusable and stressed me out for a couple hours.
If I wanted to worry about dodgy updates breaking my OS...I could just use linux. Honestly Kubuntu has been more hassle free than windows 7. This puts me just a bit closer to the idea of running linux as a host OS and running windows 7 as a virtual machine instead of the other way around.