xubuntu 9.10 update issue

[Pilot_T]

I am fairly new to Linux, and have been using Ubuntu as my home OS and have successfully updated from 9.04 to 9.10. I have just installed Xubuntu on an older PC with 256 memory and a celeron processor.
It installed and worked well, but when I used update manager to get all the critical updates (there were 174 updates) the computer will no longer boot into the OS. I simply have a blank screen and a cursor.
Is there a known issue with any of the updates? I did not look at the list, I simply clicked the button to update.
If need be I will install each update one at a time after I re-install, and test to see where it fails, but I am hoping someone knows of an issue. Thank you.
Pilot T.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Press Ctrl+Alt+F3 at blank screen. Does it switch to command line mode?

Which Graphics Card do you have?

[Pilot_T]

Thank you,
OK, impatient me... I re-installed... But have not ran update again so I do not know if Ctrl+Alt+F3 would have worked, but will log that tip.
The graphics card is an Intel 3D Direct AGP Graphics embedded on the motherboard. The computer is a Compaq Ipaq legacy free, 500MHz Celeron PC if this helps.
I did notice now that I re-installed that the list seems like the standard Ubuntu update list. Is it possible the Xfce desktop was either overwritten or a cfg file is being overwritten? When I can take the time I want to try running some updates again, but want to know if I should avoid all the "Gnome" updates.

I just ran updates again, in small batches... I got down to "Jockey-Common", "Jockey-gtk" and "GDM". I ran the two Jockey updates which were linked and rebooted and got to my desktop, but lost both my tool bars.

I will have to get back to this after Sunday, if anyone knows how to get my tool bars back, please let me know. I will try the last update on Sunday or Monday.