(I'm assuming you're referring to behavior exhibited by Software Update when it launches automatically; in 10.5, anyway, if I launch SU manually, it goes directly to the list of available updates.) Actually, no. This happens in 10.6 when I run SU manually (it never happened in 10.5 and previous). I was aware of that change before I upgraded to 10.6 via David Pogue's excellent Missing Manual book so I knew to expect it.
Jon
macOS 11.7.10, iMac Retina 5K 27-inch, late 2014, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 1 TB fusion drive, 16 GB RAM, Epson SureColor P600, Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, MS Office 365
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