Mail and iChat suddenly don't open...

Greetings everyone!
So my sister comes to visit from Texas. I converted her to Mac a few years ago. Her iBook is as follows:
1.2 GHz PowerPC G4
256MB RAM
OS X 10.4.11
Software update is up to date. Everything was working great until yesterday's software update. The following items were installed:
Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 6, version 1.0
Quicktime, version 7.3.1
Security Update 2007-009 (PowerPC), version 1.1
Now after this update, Mail and iChat won't open anymore. Mail icon bounces three times in the dock, iChat icon bounces twice in the dock, but neither opens. Tried repairing permissions, but no help.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Ty

Also, if this helps, I clicked 'Open as a log file' in the installed updates window and also got a console log to open. Here are the results of that log:
Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
2008-01-03 08:17:23 -0600
2008-01-03 08:17:25.950 SystemUIServer[86] lang is:en
dyld: Symbol not found: _WebCoreUnicodeDirectionFunction
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Jan 3 08:17:54 Tesas-iBook crashdump[201]: Mail crashed
Jan 3 08:17:55 Tesas-iBook crashdump[201]: crash report written to: /Users/tesamiller/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mail.crash.log
dyld: Symbol not found: _WebCoreUnicodeDirectionFunction
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Jan 3 08:17:58 Tesas-iBook crashdump[203]: iChat crashed
Jan 3 08:17:58 Tesas-iBook crashdump[203]: crash report written to: /Users/tesamiller/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/iChat.crash.log
dyld: Symbol not found: _WebCoreUnicodeDirectionFunction
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Jan 3 08:28:02 Tesas-iBook crashdump[213]: Mail crashed
Jan 3 08:28:02 Tesas-iBook crashdump[213]: crash report written to: /Users/tesamiller/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mail.crash.log
dyld: Symbol not found: _WebCoreUnicodeDirectionFunction
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Jan 3 08:28:07 Tesas-iBook crashdump[215]: iChat crashed
Jan 3 08:28:07 Tesas-iBook crashdump[215]: crash report written to: /Users/tesamiller/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/iChat.crash.log
dyld: Symbol not found: _WebCoreUnicodeDirectionFunction
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
Jan 3 08:28:10 Tesas-iBook crashdump[217]: iChat crashed
Jan 3 08:28:10 Tesas-iBook crashdump[217]: crash report written to: /Users/tesamiller/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/iChat.crash.log

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