How do I reverse the update to Safari 4.1?

I have a PowerMac G5 running under Mac OS 10.4.11.
I allowed Software Update to download and install the version 4.1 of Safari Sunday night. Monday night I found that links on a website in 1 of my tabs that open to a new window do NOT return to that tab when closed, instead they return to the rightmost tab. I also found that links in a website in a different tab that open in that tab are NOT marked as read when the original webpage is returned to. Neither of these bugs were happening before the update and both of them make it difficult to navigate the internet. How do I reverse the update until Apple fixes these bugs? (That update didn't corrupt my preferences, did it? They never have before but there is always a 1st time for everything.)
I did try deleting Safari from the Applications Folder and installing Safari version 4.0.5; however, version 4.0.5 wouldn't install since it claimed that a newer version was already installed, even though there was no Safari installed on my computer at the time. (I wasn't about to delete my Preferences and bookmarks. I have no desire to set up Safari from scratch! If necessary I can get my latest offsite backup, which might have a backup of my Preferences Folder, but I don't think I backed up that folder on that 1, but the previous 1 does have it, though that is several months old.)
Any help would be appreciated, though Apple's not posting buggy software would have been the best solution. (Though they don't do as bad as Bill Gates company does!)

Thanks for offering to help, kisuke3. Unfortunately, neither safe mode nor a new user account solves the problem.
I just received this information from the Chemical Abstracts Service that provides the web-based SciFinder chemical structure and literature search software. I'm not using OS X Lion, so I'm not sure if the comment about Safari 5.1 being "unable to run Java-based applications" applies under OS 10.6, but it might explain my problem? I plan to check the links below, and they might help others having difficulty under OS Lion.
"On July 20, 2011, Apple Inc. released new versions of their desktop
operating system, Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7), and their Internet
browser, Safari (version 5.1). Currently, Safari 5.1 is unable to run
Java-based applications like the SciFinder structure drawing editor.
This problem is not restricted to SciFinder.
Customers who have upgraded to Safari 5.1 and wish to draw and search
structures or reactions in SciFinder should either use Firefox or a
previous Safari version until this browser problem is addressed by
Apple.
Mac OS X Lion is the first Apple OS upgrade to ship without a built-in
Java runtime extension (JRE). SciFinder users who have upgraded to Mac
OS X Lion can download the latest Java JRE from the Apple website at
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1421. Users can validate their Java
installation by checking this website:
http://javatester.org/version.html. "

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Thanks for offering to help, kisuke3. Unfortunately, neither safe mode nor a new user account solves the problem.
I just received this information from the Chemical Abstracts Service that provides the web-based SciFinder chemical structure and literature search software. I'm not using OS X Lion, so I'm not sure if the comment about Safari 5.1 being "unable to run Java-based applications" applies under OS 10.6, but it might explain my problem? I plan to check the links below, and they might help others having difficulty under OS Lion.
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operating system, Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7), and their Internet
browser, Safari (version 5.1). Currently, Safari 5.1 is unable to run
Java-based applications like the SciFinder structure drawing editor.
This problem is not restricted to SciFinder.
Customers who have upgraded to Safari 5.1 and wish to draw and search
structures or reactions in SciFinder should either use Firefox or a
previous Safari version until this browser problem is addressed by
Apple.
Mac OS X Lion is the first Apple OS upgrade to ship without a built-in
Java runtime extension (JRE). SciFinder users who have upgraded to Mac
OS X Lion can download the latest Java JRE from the Apple website at
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1421. Users can validate their Java
installation by checking this website:
http://javatester.org/version.html. "

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