Software Update: Apple Security Update 2006-008

FYI:
Re-applying the Mac OS X 10.4.8 combo updater -- as suggested in www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20061229012312895 / Friday, December 29 2006 @ 01:23 AM PST / Security Update 2006-008 Special Report: General fixes for common issues -- did overwrite the problem-causing files :))

All sorts of strange problems after running the 2006-008 security update, yet only affecting one my two MacMini 1.66 GHz 2 GB 667 MHz running (German) OS X 10.4.8:
System Preferences completely "shot", with the Date&Time item/icon looking very odd.
The little flag for language/keyboard setting and date/time did not show any more in the top menu bar -- basically _everything_ left side of the blue Spotlight magnifying glass icon was gone.
Also Safari much more prone to quit.

Managed to delete some prefs and cached stuff and to replace the System Preferences application with the working one from the other machine.

However: Currently I get _no_ sound whatsoever. When I check the option to have the little speaker symbol displayed in the menu bar it shows. But as soon as I click it once, it vanishes from the menu bar.
In the Sound window, I have Volume set to full, yet everything is greyed out, "Sound off" is checked without my doing, while "Display sound volume in the menu bar" unchecks itself everytime(!)

And, very oddly: While resetting PRAM and the fsck-routine working ok (no problems found) and disk utility claiming to have repaired some permissions, I can not run a reset of Open Firmware/nvram with the O-F-Apple-Alt key combination using an original Apple USB Keyboard.

my computer crashed and it totally just blacked out and it was shaking and you dont wanna download this!

Powerbook G4 not waking up from sleep after update ... anybody else with this problem?

12" PowerBook 1.5GHz up and runnin' fine!

Yeh I installed it on my core 2 duo macbook with no problems at all. It just took a bit longer to shut down and reboot.

My MBP shook violently, then had children.

My desktop theme changed to black.

This bug was discovered by MacSlash author Petard. He's done a write-up of exactly what the issue was, as well as a proof-of-concept available on the web. You can check it out here: http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/19/1727246&mode=nested

I installed it and for some reason my ipod shuffle 2nd gen doesnt want to mount. and when i start itunes its tells me its not reponding....the hell!!!!!