Windows Vista & Office updates fail... Site Update says I have XP... but I'm running Vista

Hello. I've been running Vista SP2 on this computer since last January. Received fine updates. I had also installed MS Office student edition and allows to get updates. Recently, I have Office 2007 Enterprise edition and I installed it (for outlook & editor). Since then, I was not able to get the security updates. My computer will display I have 17 updates, but they fail to install. I went to the site of a genuine advantage validation and validated Vista & Office.

However, when I get the error code and go to proposed sites such as this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933528... I get an error message

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Why is this happening? Why Microsoft update thinks I have XP? How can I solve this?

Thanks for your help.

Shankar

I followed the methid described elsewhere... Turned off the coast of control user account and updates have been installed correctly... I turned it on...

I am an administrator on this computer. Why did I have to do this? This will be the case from this point on? Thank you! Shankar

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