File Open dialog crashes most applications

I have been fighting with this problem for the past few days. For some reason, whenever I go to "Open File..." in most programs, the application will crash with the following stack crawl being common to all crashes:
0 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903310ed CGImageGetWidth + 6
1 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92f6b9d5 HISegmentView::CalcSegmentContentWidth(unsigned long) + 249
2 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92f6b8b2 HISegmentView::GetSegmentContentWidth(unsigned long, unsigned char*) + 96
3 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x931be208 HISegmentView::CalcSegmentWidth(unsigned long) + 34
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92f6b815 HISegmentView::CalcSegmentBounds() + 111
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92f6ff5b HISegmentView::InvalidateMinimally() + 89
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x930332bf _HISegmentViewSetSegments + 145
7 com.apple.NavigationServices 0x92e71468 TBrowseDialog::CacheControlRefs() + 1380
8 com.apple.NavigationServices 0x92e6eb0d NavBaseDialog::AllocateDialogFromNib(__CFString const*) + 297
9 com.apple.NavigationServices 0x92e6e7af TBrowseDialog::CreateDialog() + 127
10 com.apple.NavigationServices 0x92e6e725 _NavDialog::Run() + 95
11 com.apple.NavigationServices 0x92e8af00 NavChooseObject + 258
It looks like it's trying to work with some image that causes a crash in an OS call.
This crash happens in iTunes, Firefox, Parallels, and probably most other programs. So far, the only programs that I commonly use which don't exhibit this problem are Safari and QuickTime Player.
This just started happening recently. The last thing installed was a System update on 6/10, which only included an update for QuickTime 7.1.1 on 6/10. I can't seem to find an older version of QuickTime on apple's site to back-rev.
I have tried a few other things, including repairing permissions and the disk, downloading and re-installing the 10.4.6 update and cleaning caches with Tiger Cache Cleaner.
I think I am at the point where I may have to re-install the OS, which I haven't had to do on a Mac before. I am hoping there is a way to maintain all of my settings and documents. In the windows world, this is called a repair install.
Would anyone have any words of advice?
Thanks,
- Brian
Intel iMac 20"   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Hi Brian,
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
It sounds like the best thing to try from where you're at is an Archive & Install.
Please repair the Disk & its permissions before doing this,
also backup any critical data you may have.

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