IDVD5 (and other Apple Apps) frequently crashing

I am having a problem which has just recently started happening where iDVD will not even startup. It begins to, and then crashes shortly after clicking its icon in the dock. Several other Apple applications are also very unstable on my system. Mail crashes when attempting to open certain (but not all) messages. Safari crashes at certain webpages. Pages will not start (similar to iDVD, it crashes just after it starts).
I have fixed permissions, checked the disk, scanned for viruses. Don't know what is the cause. BTW these crashes only occur under 10.4.2; all these apps work properly if I start the computer under 10.3.9.
Anyone have any suggestions about what could be the cause and what I might try?

Patrick--
This question might be better posed on a Tiger forum since it sounds like a OS problem, rather than IDVD.
1st question that I would ask is how did you install Tiger? Clean wipe of your hard drive(make sure you back up your system 1st....I use Carbon Copy Cloner) and a fresh install of Tiger might do trick.
T.

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