XP Updates won't install

Hello. I hope someone can help me. For some reason, I can no longer get my Windows Updates to install. When I go to the Windows Update Page, I have 17 updates to download(my last successful update install was 30.May.2005). The updates ALL download without a problem, but will not install. Afterwards, there is a screen that informs me …."the following updates failed to install"(all 17). I have also tried installing them one by one, only with the same result. There are NO error messages presented, only…."the following updates failed to install". I am running XP PRO with Service Pack 1. HELP ME, PLEASE!!!!!!!

I encountered the same problem with a Windows ME system (believe it or not) that I was fixing a couple of weeks ago. Don't know if this may be helpful, or perhaps you've already done it this way, but what I did that worked was:

Reboot
login as administrator
install oldest update
reboot
install next oldest….. rinse, lather, repeat……
You get the idea.

Thanks, Nyankeec, but your tip did not work. Any other ideas?