Previewcrasch when saving pdf´s

After upgrade to 10.6 I have experienced numerous crasches when trying to save pdf´s from preview (save as). I have reinstalled the OS (clean install) and restored the rest of the system using Time Machine.
Below you find a typical message (part of it) from the system.
Has anyone an idea on how to solve this issue?
Regards from Sweden
Process: Preview [4320]
Path: /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
Identifier: com.apple.Preview
Version: 5.0 (501)
Build Info: Preview-5010000~1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [88]
Date/Time: 2009-10-18 14:12:37.421 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 95691 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 5
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 74339 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 5
Anonymous UUID: 975319D4-5F66-4976-B755-E00140E82744
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Application Specific Information:
* error for object 0x1341eb278: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed.

Hi,
When I try to print this page as pdf the applications crashes. I paste part of the message below.
Process: Safari [4384]
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier: com.apple.Safari
Version: 4.0.3 (6531.9)
Build Info: WebBrowser-65310900~1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [88]
Date/Time: 2009-10-18 14:41:59.154 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 97455 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 6
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 299098 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 975319D4-5F66-4976-B755-E00140E82744
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x000000000000000d
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Message was edited by: thoja

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