does admin have to login for auto-updates to run?

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Hey All,

[XP pro sp2]

After suffering a nasty spyware infection I downgraded my & my wife's
accounts to 'plain ol' user' privilege level (or whatever it's called).
I also turned on auto-updating. I'm mostly doing 'run as' to install
software etc. & so far w/a few exceptions (@$#@! kodak explicitly
refuses to support running their digicam software as non-admin, but
whatever) things are good.

Yesterday I actually logged into the admin account interactive-like &
was surprised to see the "you've got updates to install" balloon.

Soo... Do I need to actually log in interactively as an admin user for
auto-updates to happen? I was hoping they'd be well..., automatic.

Thanks!

-Roy