Applications bounce once, never open.....

All of a sudden a lot of my applications will bounce ounce and stop, never even try to open or anything. It tends to be most of the applications that are tied to internet like safari, ichat, itunes, etc. I could not open these so I kept restarting my computer and things got worse. It got to the point where nothing functioned and the computer wouldn't even start up. Luckily I was able to perform a fsck -fy to get the comp to start up fine again, but applications still won't open. Please help!
Safari, ichat, software update, aperture, itunes are ones i found so far that won't start

XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1680x1050 @ (0,0)
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
Quitting XDarwin...
DeviceAddedCallback(): iterator=2203, retain count=2
device 582b (AppleIRController) found.
Jul 25 07:21:56 john-hietters-imac-g5 dashboardadivsoryd[771]: fetch: unable to fetch data from read stream while fetch advisory list
Jul 25 07:21:56 john-hietters-imac-g5 dashboardadivsoryd[771]: fetch-parsers: unable to fetch data from read stream
Jul 25 17:08:42 john-hietters-imac-g5 mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay 192.168.0.1.
Jul 25 17:08:58 john-hietters-imac-g5 mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface lo0 (127.0.0.1); delaying packets by 5 seconds
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0xCA 0xFE 0xBA 0xBE 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02
Jul 25 17:09:00 john-hietters-imac-g5 crashdump[782]: Safari crashed
Jul 25 17:09:01 john-hietters-imac-g5 crashdump[782]: crash report written to: /Users/John/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Safari.crash.log
Jul 25 17:09:08 john-hietters-imac-g5 mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay 10.0.1.1.
Jul 25 17:13:29 john-hietters-imac-g5 mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en1 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:0214:51FF:FE7E:FD1B); delaying packets by 5 seconds
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0xCA 0xFE 0xBA 0xBE 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02
Jul 25 17:13:35 john-hietters-imac-g5 crashdump[796]: Safari crashed
Jul 25 17:13:35 john-hietters-imac-g5 crashdump[796]: crash report written to: /Users/John/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Safari.crash.log
Jul 25 17:13:39 john-hietters-imac-g5 mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay 10.0.1.1.
2007-07-25 17:28:33.992 DashboardClient[818] setSearchComboBox...
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0xCA 0xFE 0xBA 0xBE 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02
Jul 25 17:32:31 john-hietters-imac-g5 crashdump[836]: Safari crashed
Jul 25 17:32:31 john-hietters-imac-g5 crashdump[836]: crash report written to: /Users/John/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Safari.crash.log
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0xCA 0xFE 0xBA 0xBE 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x02
Jul 25 17:38:47 john-hietters-imac-g5 crashdump[842]: Help Viewer crashed
Jul 25 17:38:47 john-hietters-imac-g5 crashdump[842]: crash report written to: /Users/John/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Help Viewer.crash.log
DeviceAddedCallback(): iterator=2203, retain count=2
device 5833 (AppleIRController) found.

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