Applications refusing to quit

I installed Leopard and after that my applications don't quit normally : after launching for example Word, iMovie and quitting, the icons are still in the dock with a little blue triangle under. With a right click I can see 'Force Quit', which has no effect.
The applications continue to appear in the 'Force Quit' menu, but they don't appear in the Activity Monitor!
Where is the problem?

Well, after some crazy tests I decided to reinstall Leopard from scratch (reformatting my internal HD). Before my first install of Loepard, I had cloned my internal HD, so I'm still able to start under Tiger.
The Leopard reinstall works fine now. But it takes a looong time to reinstall everything correctly and to make some test between each appli installation. I've not found yet which appli was the root cause of all that mess
I suppose my previous system was corrupted because I was unable to launch any PPC application (see other discussion in the Apple Support forums). I don't have any answer for the moment, just some tips for testing things (but those tests had no positive result).
For the moment, the mystery is still alive!

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~/Library/InputManagers/
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Error as it apears below
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Just installed the iPhone SDK and installed sample code. The Interface Builder will not start. At startup, the following message is displayed: "The application Interface Builder quit unexpectedly."
I've tried the standard Xcode SDK and it has the same problem. I've repaired permissions on the disk, to no avail. I'm stumped on this. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Process: Interface Builder 8090
Path: /Developer/Applications/Interface Builder.app/Contents/MacOS/Interface Builder
Identifier: com.apple.InterfaceBuilder3
Version: 3.1.2 (677)
Build Info: InterfaceBuilder-6770000~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd 137
Date/Time: 2009-01-03 19:29:24.618 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000011
Crashed Thread: 0
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2 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x911ff4f4 TThemeSpecifiedFont::Init(THIThemeTextInfo const*) + 32
3 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9110ccb3 ThemeFontCreate(THIThemeTextInfo const*) + 239
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5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9110ca49 TCoreTextEngine::Init(void const*, THIThemeTextInfo const*) + 159
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9110c781 TThemeTextCache::Create(void const*, THIThemeTextInfo const*) + 177
7 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9110c659 ThemeTextCreate(void const*, THIThemeTextInfo const*) + 33
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9 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9110c250 HIThemeGetTextDimensions + 202
10 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x912abbad HIClockView::CalculateTextDimensions() + 133
11 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x912abd82 HIClockView::GetOptimalSizeSelf(CGSize*, float*) + 118
12 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9114852d HIView::SendGetOptimalBounds(CGRect*, float*) + 151
13 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9114846d HIView::GetOptimalSize(CGSize*, float*) + 53
14 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9119bd85 GetBestControlRect + 105
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16 ...terfaceBuilder.CarbonPlugin 0x162f1b1f IBWindowForHostingCarbonControls + 11851
17 ...terfaceBuilder.CarbonPlugin 0x162f2766 IBWindowForHostingCarbonControls + 14994
18 ...terfaceBuilder.CarbonPlugin 0x162f37c8 IBWindowForHostingCarbonControls + 19188
19 ...terfaceBuilder.CarbonPlugin 0x162eb17a 0x162e5000 + 24954
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Hello,
I have been using iMovie, and iDVD for a few years now. Nothing fancy, just home videos, but I really enjoy it, and I feel very good when a project is done and I can share it with my family.
My most recent project is a group of iMovies based on the first 4 years of my middle daughter's life. I title each movie by year (1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993). Each movie has titles, transitions, soundtrack music, and "chapters" added, all standard iMovie stuff.
My problem is that this project will not work. The project starts out fine, just like always, with the little sideways barber pole spinning away, but when I come back several hours later to check on it, there is a window stating that the "application has unexpectedly quit" and asking me if I want to submit a report to apple. This has not happened before.
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Thank you David,
I appreciate your advise. As you suggested, I went back and moved all the chapters from each of the iMovies. I have never NOT placed a chapter at the very beginning of a project, and it seems strange for the "2nd" chapter to be listed as chapter #1 (since the first chapter "Beginning" is implied), but--- it worked!
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