Can't open Preferences System in Leopard

good Day everybody
Last night, i tried to switch to Mail , but i get a message error that said that it crashes on start up , so i tried to switch to iCal but it wont start too, and even for garageband iMovie iphoto iWeb , iDVD . Any of them would start up. I get a message error of crash. So i look for the console to see what 's wrong. And today i entered the preference system to change screensaver option and when i click on "Desktop and screensavers" i got the message error "impossible to load desktop and screensaver preference tab".
Process:         Mail [1133]
Path:            /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier:      com.apple.mail
Version:         ??? (???)
Build Info:      Mail-9360000~1
Code Type:       PPC (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [61]
Interval Since Last Report:          86143 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           16
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   5
Date/Time:       2011-09-22 15:08:21.807 +0000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 525A49FF-5106-4DD8-93A1-DC3CD3B34A12
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000008fe0105c
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
Referenced from: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Reason: image not found
When i switch to GarageBand or iMovie or iDVD or iWEb , it says the samething.
Please any advice will be really really reaallllllllllly helpful. The one thing i would hear is that i will have to reinstall the operating system , cause i loose the DVD install of Tiger.

As this sounds more like an OS10.5 software issue than a hardware problem at this point, you might want to post in the forum dedicated to that system software here:
ttps://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.5_leopard

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