ilife/safari update issue – lets find an answer

this is gonna sound odd, but I was reading what Larkost wrote in answer to someone else and it made me think of a question: Larkost has been unable to stop the installers for ilife and safari updates from checking the booted machine.... So lets take a different tack. How does it check the booted setup? Does it check for specific folders, files or receipts? Can we trick it by temporarily hiding whatever it is checking for? THis is obviously something we would NOT want to include in instadmg itself but if we had a viable workaround, possible in script form, it would make everyone happier. I know I am less than happy having to keep one machine un-updated to allow these updates to run... I would say that I will investigate myself, but alas, I am too busy these days to do more than read the latest posts... and even that only happens once a week.