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If there is a better forum to post this, please let me know. I don't see a forum specific to auto-updates...
Today auto-update installed Security Update 2006-003 v1.0 and QuickTime 7.1. After this install, I now have the following symptoms:
1. Mail will not start. No window, no menu. Dock shows app not repsonding.
2. Safari will not start. A blank window appears and the menu is painted. Dock shows app not responding.
3. MS IE still functions. So, there is network connectivity. I am posting this using IE. Both Safari and IE have home set to apple.com/startpage/
4. The System Preferences app starts and functions for most settings. However, if I select Accounts in order to disable the auto-start of Mail, the Prefs app never switches to the Accounts display, and it hangs forever.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Glad your problem was resolved. Just saw this thread and was curious after your clean install and Combo Update to 10.3.9 did you reinstall Security Update 2006-003 which was giving you problems with Safari and Mail.
You mentioned you have since run Disk Utility. From experience I have learned its normally a good idea to run Disk Utility before and after major updates including installation of Apple Security Updates. Did you reinstall the security update after reinstall, updating to 10.3.9 and running Disk Utility? I have not even installed Security Update 2006-003 at all or QuickTime 7.1
I don't want to risk downloading a defective update that causes more headaches than its worth. If it fixes some serious flaws and makes my Mac more secure but messes up with my system and prevents me from running Safari then obviously I won't touch it. I remember installing Security Update 2006-001 that was a nightmare. I had to do a clean OS reinstall after that to get Safari working again and reupdate to 10.3.9 so I can use QuickTime 7.
With iTunes 5 update for Mac and Windows I noticed on both my Mac and my PC (have an Apple laptop with OS X and a desktop PC with Win XP) that my shared music libraries stopped working. My Mac could not share music with my PC nor could my PC share music with my Mac. The iTunes 6.0.2 update was also problematic -- as Disk Utility stopped working.
I heard of problems in QuickTime 7.1 affecting both Macs and Windows PCs have deliberately chosen not to update either my Mac or PC to that update -- have QT 7 for Mac and Windows installed but won't update to 7.1 on either OS if it causes problems. Now I hear Security Update 2006-003 can force Safari and other apps like Mail to stop working.
Before I heard a few people say on Intel Macs the update caused OS to freeze more only (sometimes) which is a problem but didn't hear anything as serious as this. Was just considering finally downloading the update since I hadn't heard any problems yet but will now likely hold off on it indefinately. I do want my Mac to be secure but at same time don't want a faulty update to break my applications. Don't want to go through same problem I experienced when installing Security Update 2006-001 all over again with Security Update 2006-003.
After reinstalling OS X Panther and updating to 10.3.9 and running Disk Utility of course (as needed in between major installs) I deliberately did not reinstall Security Update 2006-001 I decided it was more headache than its worth. I had to reinstall OS X to get Safari working again and get rid of that update reinstalling it after that would only return the problem. Then I would have to do a clean reinstall of OS X a third time, update to 10.3.9 and QT 7 to access Safari. Of course I also reinstalled past Apple Security Updates from last year (calendar year 2005) that didn't cause trouble.
However, I did install Security Update 2006-002 later after I double checked -- waited for a while to hear if any bugs were in the update and once I felt sure it was a safe update I installed it to better secure the OS.

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