After Installing Leopard Finder Crashes directly after Login

Hi,
i Installed Leopard on my MacBook Core 2 Dual. After install the Macbook worked fine for a while (ca. 30 Minutes) then it crashed and asked me to reboot by pressing the power on key a while. But after restart and login it crashes again, and again, and again.
So i tried booting in save mode ... (pressing shift while boot) ... now i can login, but what now?
I started to look around in the system and step by step deinstall every app that may interfere with leopard. But no success up to now. Each time i boot normally it crashes again.
Does anybody else had the same problem ?
And maybe found what's causing this problem.
Thanks in advance.

OK, its coming up now ...
deinstalled:
VMWare Fusion
NDAS Driver
Little Snitch 2.0 beta 10
3D Desktop Aquarium ScreenSaver
collection of plasq Screensavers
ToasterClone Screensaver
Parallels Extensions from StartupItems Folder
not an idea at the moment which of them was the bad guy,
but i will find out
@Sebastian try disabling those above if you have installed ones of them an come back posting if that helped

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