10.6.5 Update Killed Preview App, Causes Occasional Freeze

The update to 10.6.5 has caused havoc on my Mac Mini. It became unresponsive during the update, and has frozen on a couple of other occasions. More importantly, it nuked the Preview app. It is no longer on my machine. When I click an image or PDF, there's a flash, but nothing opens. I ran the installation disk to check for disk damage and permission problems, but everything checked out. I then downloaded and reinstalled the 10.6.5, hoping it would bring back Preview, but no luck. After researching the problem on the net, I also tried deleting a few files from the library -> preferences folder. No luck.
I found a couple of people on CNET post that they are having the same kind of problem: http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6126_102-505971.html
I called Apple and the tech support guy's only solution was to wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system. He offered to escalate the problem to another tech guy, but they were closed for the night.
Does anyone have any solutions to this problem? I am positive the update caused this problem, and hope Apple issues a software fix.
Message was edited by: BigFish2011

...is Preview actually in your applications folder but just won't launch, or are you saying it doesn't exist at all?
Tech support guy isn't quite right, you could run an 'archive and install' from the 10.6 disk, which would leave your personal data in place...you'd just have to run updates again afterward, because it'd take you back to 10.6.
If you re-ran the combo update, the archive/install's probably your only bet...I'm not sure if Preview is one of the bundled applications under the optional installs on the 10.6 disk. Also not sure if you could just copy it from the applications folder of someone else's machine.

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