My apps won't quit or re-open

All of a sudden yesterday my applications started to not quit. I couldn't actually use the apps, the appeared closed, but they still showed as open in the dock and the force quit menu. It wouldn't let me open them again to use them so I had to manually restart with the power button (it wouldn't let me shut down on the OS either). Now it's doing it all the time and it's really annoying, what could be causing it?

I was having the same problem, minus the error code. When I called Apple they told me to call back when it quits loading and quitting apps. It happened the next day and they sent me to a product specialist who had no clue why the apps would quit responding like that. Finally, I booted to the Leopard DVD and did an erase and install. Time Machine restored my system and everything is working fine.

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