Dashboard, iChat, Safari & software update crash since upgrading to 10.4.3

Question

After the upgrade was finished, the machine did a restart and it worked fine. The Dash was working fine. The Software update wasn't though. I didn't try iChat till later on so I don't know if it worked initialy. Then I did a reboot and everything went to sh*t.
I found this in the logs:
Jan 4 20:55:38 pbg4 crashdump[437]: DashboardClient crashed
Jan 4 20:55:39 pbg4 crashdump[439]: DashboardClient crashed
Jan 4 20:55:39 pbg4 crashdump[441]: DashboardClient crashed
Jan 4 20:55:39 pbg4 crashdump[437]: crash report written to: /Users/vicmartin/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/DashboardClient.crash.log
Jan 4 20:55:39 pbg4 crashdump[439]: crash report written to: /Users/vicmartin/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/DashboardClient.crash.log
Jan 4 20:55:39 pbg4 crashdump[441]: crash report written to: /Users/vicmartin/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/DashboardClient.crash.log
Jan 4 20:58:10 pbg4 crashdump[444]: Safari crashed
Jan 4 20:58:11 pbg4 crashdump[444]: crash report written to: /Users/vicmartin/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Safari.crash.log
Jan 4 21:00:40 pbg4 crashdump[451]: Software Update crashed
Jan 4 21:00:40 pbg4 crashdump[451]: crash report written to: /Users/vicmartin/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Software Update.crash.log
When I checked the Software Update.crash.log and Safari.crash.log , etc... they all said the same thing... as follows:
Host Name: pbg4
Date/Time: 2006-01-05 01:05:32.530 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.3 (Build 8F46)
Report Version: 3
Command: DashboardClient
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/DashboardClient.app/Co ntents/MacOS/DashboardClient
Parent: Dock [95]
Version: 1.0.2 (1.0.2)
PID: 319
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xa56ef000
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9012cb40 memcmp + 128
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x909bd92c objcaddHeader + 308
2 libobjc.A.dylib 0x909bc0b4 map_images + 196
3 dyld 0x8fe0f8b4 ImageLoaderMachO::doNotification(dyldimagemode, unsigned, dyldimageinfo const*) + 108
4 dyld 0x8fe03a38 dyld::notifyAdding(std::vector<ImageLoader*, std::allocator<ImageLoader*> >&) + 260
5 dyld 0x8fe0d8f4 ImageLoader::runInitializers(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 80
6 dyld 0x8fe030a0 dyld::initializeMainExecutable() + 92
7 com.apple.dashboard.client 0x00002ae0 0x1000 + 6880
8 com.apple.dashboard.client 0x000028d0 0x1000 + 6352
9 com.apple.dashboard.client 0x00002830 0x1000 + 6192
... bla bla bla
Any ideas... ANYONE?
I'd rather not do an archive and restore cause then my files and apps get moved... correct?
Please advise,
Vic aka. Dave
Powerbook G4 & PowerMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Answer 1

Hello Dave:
You mentioned upgrade - was this an incremental upgrade (e.g. 10.4.2>10.4.3) or an upgrade to 10.4.x? If it was an incremental update, try Balto's reinstall of the incremental upgrade.
An archive and install upgrade will preserve all of your programs, settings, and files and install a fresh copy of OS X. It also creates a rather large "previous system" folder that is kind of like a spare tire. When everything is running well, you can trash it (I keep mine about two weeks).
As an aside, A&I takes about an hour or so. I prefer it to other upgrade methods.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Barry