IPhoto, iChat, wont open "due to a problem"

iPhoto and iChat do not open, they close "due to a problem". I have repaired disk permissions a plethora of times, I used Disk Warrior to rebuild the partition. And Ive done everything, including deleting preferences (plists, etc). I appreciate any help.

You may have older version of iPhoto and iChat that were written with Power PC code. To see if you have any Power PC programs go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info and then System Report . When System Profiler comes up select Applications under Software. Then look under Kind to see if any of your applications are listed as Power PC. Universal and Intel will run under Lion.

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