This same thing happened to me. Try restarting then try it again dude. When I got that error WU downloaded and installed KB971033 automatically but I wanted to install it manually which gave that error code because WAT was already installed. I can probably bet that is what happened lol
That is not what I am saying. When you try to validate online it downloads the WAT update from the website to validate. If you have the same update already pending on windows update then you will get errors like this. That is all I am saying dude, it is nothing more then a install error.
I agree sam. I had the same thing happen to me once, I uninstalled the WAT update and rebooted and it worked as it should. It is just an installation error.
Ok, well, that is how you avoid the error. If you install the WATupdate using WU you must restart before it takes affect but if you try to validate online before you reboot you will get that errror again.