Leopard quitting applications.

i would like to know or perhaps understand why my macbook quit some software while I am running others. Here is the picture: I closed the lid, while I had open microsoft word, mail, safari. Then, after while, I try to use the computer, but the microsoft word just quit. This happen with my dictionary two days ago while using the word and iTunes at the same time.
I up to date to Leopard last Saturday. It has something related with it?
Thanks a lot,
M

Hi guys ...
For me over the past years these steps have solved 98% of problems ...
1. Repair your disk with Disk Utility booting from your install disk. Before you continue with the install... a menu will appear at the top showing Disk Utility ...Don't bother verifying ... just run the disk repair ...
2. Repair permissions from Disk Utility in your Applications/Utilities folder .....
3. Clean your caches with something like Cocktail
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10909/cocktail
... Go to Files/Caches/ choose system and all user and internet caches. Then press clear. Make sure all applications are closed before doing this and restart after ....
Leopard runs all the cron scripts automatically ... I use Macaroni to repair permissions on a weekly basis ... but Cocktail will do this too .. manually.
When you clear your caches the apps will run slower the first time and some will respond as if being used for the first time ...
Happy computing!

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Hi John, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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