Ichat won't open/load after auto-update

i recently did an auto-update of safari and now the application will not open/boot. same for ichat, as well as adium and yahoo instant messenger. i click on the ichat icon in my dock, and it bounces for a second, stops, and the nothing. can anyone help? thank you.
powerbook g4
tiger 10.4.11

Hi,
Does this have any bearing http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2834?viewlocale=en_US ?
8:51 PM Sunday; July 26, 2009
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

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