Mail & other apple apps no launch

out of the blue, suddenly apple mail, safari, calendar studio pro and soundtracks will not launch (spinning ball and force quit). also disc utility hangs on launch so i can't do a repair permissions (though i normally do this before/after installs, and when i go to apple software update, it will hang. interesting iTunes, movie player and Final Cut seem OK, as well as adobe apps pshop, AFX, illustrator. explorer 5 works and will get me on the internet. any ideas or help. i'm mystified.

thanks (a lot) for the help. finally got everything working again. it took about 6 hours and was some combination of cache cleaning, permission repair, trashing of assorted preferences, removing the fonts i had added and undoing font book.
for anyone with similar problems, this was very useful:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/multipleappsquit.html

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So I went online, thinking I needed a separate iCloud Apple ID, but it prompted me for my current Apple ID and gave me the message about my ID being "valid" but not an iCloud account," which, lol, was what it had asked me to do in order to create one. I checked, and at least one other user is having the same issue. I'll attempt to copy/paste the Support request url: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4430653?tstart=0
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