Many of Apple's update have been quite large lately. I'd chock it up to that, and since watching a progress bar makes it feel faster, the silent download "seems" to take a long time.

Thanks for the response. I certainly do understand what you're saying. They have been very large, and I did notice that there's no visual indicator of the download, which I know can make it seem longer.

But, I let it run overnight, and when I got back to my machine in the morning, there'd been barely any progress made. The updates folder was only about 2MB larger than when I went to bed, and I didn't actually see new files. And, I have awesome bandwidth here.

I've restarted the machine - repaired permissions - and cleared many caches recently, but this was still an issue.

I wanted to notify you directly, but didn't really see a reference to this program on your website listed above, so I posted here.

Do you have any additional suggestions?

I want to use this, and love it like it should be loved! I can't believe Apple themselves killed this in this version...

Sounds like an isolated issue to me. This utility just uses Apple's internal software update commands, so there isn't really anything to debug. Good luck with that.