"You cannot use the application "Safari" with this version of Mac OS X."

This little box popped up after I downloaded 10.5.1 update last night. Anyone else? Any ideas? Nothing else changed.

answer is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5892563&#5892563

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