I tried everything I could... on MY computer. After I tried this on a DIFFERENT computer, the update went without a hitch, but took about 30 minutes to apply.

Only odd things I found was that I had to delete Facebook and re-install it to get it to post pictures and also the Chinese fonts actually didn't load. Ended up using fonts from a previous backup. Otherwise rockin' the 184 just fine.

Possible reason for the failure on my computer was that last I remember, I was in process of updating to XP SP3, but the computer status still indicates SP2.