Can't access secure sites from safari

I'm writing this message from my PC at home because I could not access the message board on my mac at work. At any rate, I noticed Sunday that I could not access any secure web sites from my mac (hotmail, aol, etc.) It worked fine a couple of weeks ago before I went on vacation. We had a 2 1/2 day work week last week because of Thanksgiving, so I didn't notice the problem until this past Sunday. I'm not sure when I installed the latest update, but I know that I did install all of them.
I've searched the forums for information about these symptoms, and have found several similar ones, but none of their solutions have worked for me. It was hard to go back and reference the formus due to having to restart my comptuer numerous times as directed, and because of the similarity of the search strings used to find the particular topic to begin with.
I saw several solutions involving the emptying of caches, cookies, and the like. I saw another relating to an iTunes issue of not being able to access the online store. Yes, I tried that as well and am not able to access the store on my mac. The situation is not resolved by using Firefox either. Basically, I'm shut out of anything that I have to "Login" to. Any suggestions?
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I've been having a similar problem on my home Mac for a couple weeks. I am not having this problem with my home PC, and the two computers share a router. Even weirder, my husband uses this laptop and he is not having the same problems. Just my userID (the admin one) is afflicted.
Safari and iTunes are still intractable. The iChat problem cleared while I was working on the others.
I switched to Firefox and can now log in to secure connections with it. I had to make Firefox the default browser and knock Safari out of the dock before it worked.
Here are the error messages:
From Safari, from which I get a similar message whenever I try to log in to any secure connection:
Safari can’t open the page “https://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Welcome.woa/1158/wa/authenticate?cty=US&aff=consu mer&rid=SKV2Bp4pL79FcdhJ&lang=en” because it couldn’t establish a secure connection to the server “www.mac.com”.
From iTunes when I try to play any of my purchases, change my password:
"iTunes could not connect to the iTunes store. The requested keychain was invalid. Open Keychain Access and run Keychain First Aid, then try again."
Needless to say, nothing I've been able to both find and understand has helped. Apple support has not been any use.
Help.
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