Latest Updates - Leopard screwed up

Hi all,
On the whole, leopard 10.5.2 has been really good and very reliable after i got past the initial teething problems.
But after the most recent updates, im getting loads of problems. Apps crashing, spaces looks all wrong - see pic. I can no longer move windows between spaces when in spaces view and instead HAVE to drage them to the sides of the screen. itunes now doesnt quit normally -and the apple remote comands will only actualy occur in between songs, e.g. i press volume up three times - it wont happen till the end of the song.
Anyone else having similar problems or have any fixes?
Thanks,
Matt
http://mt13.quickshareit.com/share/picture11bf34.png

LOL, at me replying to another one of your threads, BUT, I'm having a problem on my macbook (leopard) since I did the last update Saturday night. Although, I haven't noticed any of the issues you mentioned with spaces ( I don't use spaces), but what I did notice about itunes is that it doesn't stay in the dock, and neither does safari for that matter..but what really is making me ANGRY is that quicken and microsoft office not longer works. When I try to open up either one of those programs (which by the way are the only ones I have installed on my macbook) it says ".....quit unexpectedly". When I called a tech, they said there isn't much they can do because they are NOT their programs...to try an archive/install....but geesh, so what if it isn't one of your programs, it one of YOUR macs that can no longer read it. What a coincidence. I haven't tried the archive/install yet, I was going through these boards to see if anyone else has this problem. I'm so upset.

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