PPC Leopard, Safari and PubSubAgent

Hi all.  Am running Leopard 10.5.8 on a dual 1.42 PPC G4 2/500GB with 385GB on startup partition.
Often use Safari 5.0.6 but after recent clean restore from system disks, together with updates, whenever I open Safari, PubSubAgent regularly throws up 'unexpected quit' dialogues (only when Safari is open though).  Never used to 'til after bleach & restore (which all came about through an Office 2008 problem )
I don't use RSS, MobileMe or Mail (use Entourage which is a whole other yawn:).  Have switched off as many RSS prefs in Safari as poss, invoked the Develop menu from terminal using command:  'defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1' - nothing in that menu about "Disable/Turn off RSS support".
Have deleted the PubSub folder and anything I can find to do with PSA in user/library/preferences & quite probably sys/library/preferences too but the problem persists.
Am cautiously wary of UNIX because of what might be done with finger trouble but generally have no problems with the Terminal app.  Am def stuck on this one though! - Any ideas from the geneii out there?  Your help would be much appreciated ..
Thanks,
J

You were right - it was a safari prob & thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.  The problem was a corrupt bookmark file in:
/Users/~/Library/Safari
Solution is to delete that file & restore bookmarks from a reliable source or forget them.
A more rigorous solution is to delete Safari altogether & re-install 5.0.6 from
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1422

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