I Book G4 12 inch freezing up and acting strangely

Recently we bought my wife a 12 inch I Book G4. It is a 1.2 megz processor. We have upgraded the ram, and recently replaced the keyboard. In the last few days it has started acting strangely.
While using Pages, and Safari, it begins to "spin" and that application freezes up. Not only does that application freeze up, but when we click on the other applications, they just "bounce" on the dock, but never open up. It is interesting that when we turn off the airport extreem, and then turn it back on, everything goes back to normal.
This is very strange behavior. Has anyone run in to this before? What should we do?

Wow, it's good to know i'm not alone in this. I've never had any trouble with my Ibook before this. This morning (or yesterday?) I installed the recent security update, it's been doing that ever since. First it won't allow any NEW connections (already connected applications, AIM, work), when that starts it won't load other applications then the computer freezes with the beach ball. And it's not safari, because I use firefox with the same results. I would love to archive an install, but somewhere along the way my Tiger disk went missing. If any of you find a solution other than restarting and waiting for it to happen again, i'd love to hear it.

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