If there is a lesson about Windows Update, skip the drivers.
I'm in a loop here.
This is NOT a prolem with updates themselves, but the update software.
Windows Update program
error code: 800f081f
I went to the microsoft site and manually downloaded service packs 1 & 2:
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 installed.
Synaptics driver update failed
Problem still remains, and I cannot find that error code anywhere. So my update program wont download updates until I download the update for Update, which wont download.
Oh, it wont install from microsoft site either.

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