Strange files in my HD directory...help?

Hey guys,

I did an update the other day and it locked up on the restart, and I just looked in my Hard drive root folder and noticed a bunch of randomly named small files. Looks like they all showed up November 3rd between 1:13AM - 1:27AM and appear to be from apple. I only tried looking at a few in TextEdit, some were empty, others opened and say the following:


<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">

<key>DeviceCertificate</key>
<data>

Then below that theres just a TON of lines of randomness. So it looks like these are apple files of some sort but I don't know why there are so many, or why they'd end up in that folder of all places...or if its okay to just delete them. I assume this has something to do with that software updates...?

Anyone have any idea? I put them all in their own folder and took a screen shot of that folder. Any help would be greatly appreciated!