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Non installation under 10.4.10 may be related to the version number not being recognised correctly. See: excepts from the link: 'Mac OS X 10.4.10 is the first iterative release of Mac OS X to have 5 digits in its version string (1, 0, 4, 1, 0). It is also the first iterative release of Mac OS X to use the '.10' extension.
This is causing some significant issues. The initial three [sic] digits for '10.4.10' are the same as '10.4.1', an earlier release of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Since the 'MAC_OS_X_VERSION_ACTUAL' string (used by Cocoa applications to determine the current OS version) can carry a maximum of four digits, Mac OS X 10.4.10 and and 10.4.1 are both labeled '1041'. This means that some applications recognise Mac OS X 10.4.10's version string as Mac OS X 10.4.1 and refuse to properly run, erroneously thinking that the system version is too old. For instance, the application UNO requires Mac OS X 10.4.4. When running under Mac OS X 10.4.10, it recognizes the Mac OS X version number as 10.4.1 and refuses to operate.' - VersionTracker
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