Previewing Pictures in  Finder crashes my Finder

I've been having some problems lately with Finder suddenly crashing whenever I try to preview images/video in column view. Every time I try, it just crashes finder, and I need to relaunch it. This is also carrying on to safari, for instance when I am trying to upload files to my website (the browse file option to find the files is in column view). When I try to do that, it ends up crashing Safari the same way it crashes the Finder. I hope I can fix this problem soon, as I have not been able to upload anything on my site since then.

The information that you have obtained - particularly that a new user account works okay - certainly points to something in your account being the problem. I am not really sure if there is an easy way to make the settings of your account to be the same as those of the new account. Also, the more I think about this, the less it sounds like a typical preference problem. Usually if there is a bad preference, an app will crash immediately when someone tries to launch it. That is not what you are reporting.
Besides preferences, some items specific to your account could be startup or login items and cache files. I suggest trying some troubleshooting steps to see if the problem could be with some of these.
To test for problems in startup items and login items, I suggest that you try to boot in Safe Mode, which will disable these items. Instructions for that are here: Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode. If your account works okay then, a little more troubleshooting will be needed to find the problem item.
If the Safe Boot does not improve the situation, it would be worth eliminating the possibility of a corrupted cache file somewhere. This can be done by cleaning your user caches. Techniques for this are discussed at
Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption. See the discussion regarding cache cleaning.
If none of that works, it would be worth looking for a crash log from Finder. To find that, start the Console app from the Utilities menu. Using the logs icon at the top left, navigate to ~/Library/logs > CrashReporter and then look for something like Finder.crash.log. If such a log exists, it might be pretty big. Rather than posting it here, perhaps you could email it to me and I would look at it to see if I could make any sense out of it.
I wish that I could give you a quick fix for your problem, but the cause is not obvious, so the only approach I know is to keep trying various troubleshooting steps to help isolate the problem.
Hope this helps,
Rich
EMAC G4 1.0 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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