Mail, Address Book, iCal, Safari problems after 10.4.6 update

Updated to 10.4.6 from 10.3.9 via purchased Tiger disks, and have been having problems with Apple basic applications.
Address Book opens, then freezes and must Force Quit.
iCal opens, then freezes and must Force Quit.
Mail opens, but cannot retrieve or send. Cannot Quit Mail, and must Force Quit.
Safari opens, and runs okay, until two letters of text are entered into a search box. I was able to work around this problem by going to Safari > Preferences > Autofill.
I unchecked AutoFill Web Forms "Using info from my Address Book card", and now I can enter text in a Search Box in Safari. I would also get a freeze when I would click Edit on that line.
When switching to a backup User Account, all these applications seem to run fine.
Thanks in advance for any help.
G4 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I get the following when I open Mail and Address Book in Console:
===== Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:57:19 PM America/Chicago =====
2006-05-21 20:58:36.955 Mail[456] * Assertion failure in -[ABMutableMultiValue addValue:withLabel:], Framework/AddressBook/ABMultiValue.m:486
2006-05-21 20:58:36.956 Mail[456] * NSRunLoop ignoring exception 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: value != nil && label != nil && [label length] > 0' that raised during posting of delayed perform with target 4225f0 and selector 'reallyFinishLaunching'
===== Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:59:00 PM America/Chicago =====
2006-05-21 21:01:38.373 Address Book[458] * Assertion failure in -[ABMutableMultiValue addValue:withLabel:], Framework/AddressBook/ABMultiValue.m:486
2006-05-21 21:01:38.373 Address Book[458] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: Invalid parameter not satisfying: value != nil && label != nil && [label length] > 0

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