Saltgrass,
I always have the soon as possible turned off, do not wish to be a guinea pig. I have been turning on and off updates depending on what I am doing about the failures. Your recommendation about checking the event viewer was helpful. I saw some events that were not showing up in the logs. The last update that ran successfully for me was the 8/25 update. Since then nothing has worked.
I was trying the re-install to try and get updates functioning again. I have the same problem with the re-install. I get a message that it did not work and it gets rolled back.
Last Friday I tried another re-install and it corrupted my OS. Unfortunately my most recent backup restore failed so I began a new build. I am 90% completed with my build and getting settings and programs back to where they were. With hindsight, I could have done this on Nov 22nd when I started this thread and been way ahead time wise.
Thanks for your views on the thread. I hope others who are experiencing similar issues have a better outcome.