09-17-2009 08:38 AM
09-17-2009 08:47 AM
The updates needing applying issue is a known issue
http://support.veritas.com/docs/324157
You can check if updates are installed by looking at the version numbers of key files on your remote server compared with the details in the release notes of the various hotfixes.
My guess is that patch levels are not the cause of your error