How long is it usually between updates for Mac OS? It was 2 months and a week about between 10.4.3 and 10.4.4, but is it really going to be a whole season until 10.4.5?! (appleinsider states that the release is in spring)
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They release it when it's ready. Some take a couple of months some take much longer. You just have to wait and see. What's the rush anyway? Do you have a specific bug you need fixed?
If you haven't already, start a new thread outlining the exact problems with Keychain and maybe some background information about your machines. 
I actually have no idea if my keychain is broken or not, but I do know that my computer refuses to remember passwords... I can click "add to keychain" till I'm blue in the face, and next time around, again, it's like it never happened. Weird. I've just given up on it. Don't know if the problem is with keychain or what, but I've resigned myself to simply having to fill the various passwords every time.
Your keychain could be corrupted. An update won't fix corrupted files (unless it writes over them and I doubt Apple would delete everyone's keychain in order to fix a couple of people's problems). My suggestion is to delte your current keycahin and create a new one (unless you are of course using a Safari Beta nightly build thing)
Many times that can be done by changing a phrase or two in the package contents of isync. Search http://www.macosxhints.com/ for your phone or google for a hack.ipacmm said:
7on said:
I had the same exact issue and couldn't even create a new keychain... really nothing I could do... the thread I started is somewhere in this forum.
A lot of people have tried to help but to no avail... after a good archive and install keychain is now properly working.
Synapple said:
It's sad that it required an archive and install, but it also isn't obvious why a dot upgrade would fix a corrupted keychain. There's nothing wrong per se with keychain in 10.4.4... it's working for most of us. Doing this is probably a better option than waiting for 10.4.5.
I'm specifically waiting for some fixes to Firewire. Currently I can't even install 10.4.4 as the Firewire bugs that it brings in means I can't boot from an external firewire drive, I just get a kernel panic every single time. I've tried reinstalling many, many times, using a variety of approaches (going straight from 10.4.0 to 10.4.4, incrememntally going 10.4.0->10.4.1->10.4.2 ...) and each time Kernel Panic on booting. So I've left it on 10.4.3 and have no problems whatsoever. Not a single kernel panic.