Preview won't start after upgrade to mavericks

After Upgrading to Mavericks this afternoon (30th Oct 2013, 1420hrs)
- i face the following problems. (there could be more problems that i may not have found out yet)
1.
The Preview application cant start.
when i double click the prview applicaiton icn, the screen flashes momentarily, but nothing happens. the preview does not start.
however, when i press the space bar, i can quick look at all the various file type such as *.pdf or *.jpg etc. but i can open it on preview.
2.
The same goes to the textEdit application - it does'nt start. the screen just flashes and nothing happens.
3.
When i click "Software Update.." from the Apple menu, nothing happens
Up till now, I have a perfect smooth OS until i migrated to Mavericks.
Please, can some one show me how can i solve these ?
I cant open any of my pdfs and any of my txt files since i upgraded to mavericks...
For you information :
My current Mac Nook Air is:
Software OS X 10.9 (13A603)
Any assistance from you all will be great.
Thank you all...

Back up all data. Quit Preview if it's running.
Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, delete the following items, if they exist:
          Containers/com.apple.Preview
          Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist
          Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist
          Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState
Log out and log back in. Launch the application and test.

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