Macbook not opening certain programs and running others slowly.

My macbook has recently started not opening certain programs on my computer, such as garageband and iweb and others shut down randomly in the middle of using them. I also can't access the other account on my computer. I downloaded virus protection and ran that, but my computer is still not working right! What should I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Start with http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/multipleappsquit.html The Tiger stuff should be applicable.

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