10.4.5 update has trashed Safari

Since running the update, Safari has become unstable.
I have had a zillion unexpected quits today and it all started when I ran the updater. This always happens when attempting to play flash video content within an html page (such as in the cnet.com page I was just at) but it has happened in other random ways too.
Hare's an extract from the last crash report:
Date/Time: 2006-02-16 00:21:39.991 +0000
OS Version: 10.4.5 (Build 8H14)
Report Version: 4
Command: Safari
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Parent: WindowServer [106]
Version: 2.0.3 (417.8)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: WebBrowser
Source Version: 4170800
PID: 840
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x37382d34
Thread 0 Crashed:
I am not using any unusual configurations and I have repared permissions. Next I will see if flash needs updating. Does anybody have any advice or is anybody in Apple listening???
Please don't just tell me not to use System Update in the future. I am naiive enough to belive that if Apple put it in the OS and it says Update Now then it should be okay to do that and I like to assume that software has been properly tested before it is inflicted on us. At least that is what I would do if I ran a computer mutinational.
Like I said, call me naiive...

I think I have cracked it. And it kind of involves eating Humble Pie.
The short answer is that Safari Enhancer had set Safari to report to websites as Internet Explorer 6 for Windows - and as soon as I set that back to Safari my problems ceased.
I really thought I had set everything back to default before deciding it was a Safari problem but evidently I had not. I suggest anybody having this problem check whether they have anything similar.
The longer story is that I realised from the crash report that flash content was always associated with the crashes. I thought maybe I should update flash but when I went to the macromdia site all I could see was Windows software, like it thought I was running a Windows machine... and then it clicked.
I have no idea if or why I set Safari to report as IE (maybe to get round some badly coded sites?) or whether the update did this to Safari Enhancer itself... or possibly why the update has rendered this feature of Safari Enhancer a liability. All I know is that all is well with my world and I am suitably chastened.
If, on the other hand, you don't have anything like Safari Enhancer installed in the first place you may still be stuffed. Perhaps you need to download Safari Enhancer to sort this out...
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