Noel, did as you suggested. the following results occured.
safe mode, renamed WMP.DLL to WMP.old
restart downloaded WMP9 (took 90 minutes via dialup)
rebooted, downloaded KB828026 (took 15 minutes via dialup)
rebooted, KB885492 never offered at MS UpDater however did offer
KB911565 which we downloaded (took 12 minutes via dialup)
rebooted and rechecked, no updates offered at this time..
TKS
seems to have solved the orignal problem..
(Future note, is it recommended to always download oldest offered
updates first?)

TKS again,
RTS


"Rocky T Squirrel" wrote in message
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Thanks Noel,
We'll give it a try..
(recently had to reinstall the ME and associated programs after the
motherboard failed ((bad clocking xtal)) using dialup it takes several
"days" to get all the windows updates installed.)

RTS


"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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1. Boot into Safe Mode.
2. Search for any and all files named WMP.DLL and rename them (wmp.old
will
do).
3. Re-boot into Normal Mode.
4. Re-download WMP9 and then KB828026 (NOT the 885492 update!).
5. Re-boot.
6. Check to see if the update is offered again - only the 885492 should
be
offered, and you should take it.
7. Re-boot - and go back to Windows Update for any further updates
9. Check to see ifthe 828026 update is offered again


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"Rocky T Squirrel" wrote in message
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for the past 10 days i've been running the win updater and each time
it
says
i have 1 critical update KB828026. I run the update and each time
the
file loads. But the next time i check for updates KB828026
reappears..

Any suggestions.
Tks,
RTS