Finder can't open an application because PowerPC applications are no longer supported

Hello, i've got a really strange error when I open Finder, it says The application Finder can't open because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.
I have no idea why it does this suddenly... any idea ?

Well, the only thing I did was installing the update of Mac OSX 10.7.4...
And just after that, my Finder can't open anymore :/
I had Lion before that and Finder worked correctly.
Actually, I had a little problem during the installation of the update, it was stuck at the end of the progression for hours... I shut down the computer and turned it on again, and there wasn't any problem there, until my problem with Finder.
That might be the problem. But this isn't the first time my Macbook can't install correctly the updates.. Is there a way to reinstall the update ? It is marked as installed, so I don't know what to do here.
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