If it's not one thing...

So.

Let's see. 

I tried installing an older version of iPhoto, and rendered all my iLife and iWork apps useless (because System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeMediaBrowser was not found). 

As I was dealing with that, the Magsafe on my laptop started to smoke. 

And now, to top it all off, I was going to apply 10.5.2 again and see if that fixed the first issue, and it won't apply. Turns out that other people are having the same problem. 

Sigh. It never rains....

I can reinstall system software from the ground up. Except I am out of town for a couple days, and my disks are in town. 

And I am about 200 km from the nearest Apple Authorized Repair