Today on starting PC for the first time, Avast did auto update succesfully. Only strange thing was ever since I had installed Avast 6, the virus def update was almost instantaneous after my desktop appeared. This time it took about a minute or so for the Avast popup to appear stating the update occured. Might have something to do with the WIN 7 system fix I ran yesterday to correct the JMicro RAID boot issue I had. Perhaps WIN 7 changed the auto-startup order?
