Problmes with itunes, ichat, ical, safari, firefox crashing on opening.

Question

Hi, I'm having a problem with firefox,itunes,ichat, yahoo messager, addressbook, ical, and safari. i got dish warror fixeds the volume errors, the programs still crash. Tried to reinstal firefox and it keeps bring up the error. says its missing imgines and address book. in the frames. the interent is fine, not on the computer now since there is no browers that are able to come up. I have 10.4. it crashed last week. the icons will only bounce once or twice then the report says they crashed.
thanks for any help!!
heres the crash report :
Feb 26 23:06:59 denise-laudemans-ibook-g4 crashdump262: crash report written to: /Users/deeunicorn23/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/firefox-bin.crash.log
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook
Referenced from: /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x58 0x59 0x5A 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x58 0x59 0x5A 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Feb 26 23:08:58 denise-laudemans-ibook-g4 crashdump265: iChat crashed
Feb 26 23:08:58 denise-laudemans-ibook-g4 crashdump265: crash report written to: /Users/deeunicorn23/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/iChat.crash.log
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook
Referenced from: /Camino.app/Contents/MacOS/Camino
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x58 0x59 0x5A 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x58 0x59 0x5A 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Feb 26 23:14:25 denise-laudemans-ibook-g4 crashdump299: Camino crashed
Feb 26 23:14:25 denise-laudemans-ibook-g4 crashdump299: crash report written to: /Users/deeunicorn23/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Camino.crash.log

Answer 1

Hi
that looks like an excerpt from console, rather than the crash logs such as
'/Users/deeunicorn23/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Camino.crash.log'
but no matter - it does show that both Firefox & Camino are stuck trying to access a file
System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook
which they can locate, but don't recognise the file type of... probably because it's been damaged or over-written somehow.
The easiest way out is to restore from a recent backup - either just that file, or the whole system.
There's no guarantee that it will be the only problem file, so verifying/repairing the disk is a good idea, as well as making a backup (if you don't already have one) just in case any data is lost.
You might try Safe mode - just in case that allow the problem apps to run - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455
If installer still works - the 10.4.11 combo update may contain the file, so running that would work.
Let us know what backups or access to other macs running Tiger you have - or if you really don;t want to get techy, reinstall the OS, choosing the 'archive & install' option.
Another option is Pacifist from http://charlessoft.com/ to extract just the damaged file from a suitable installer package or DVD, but that'd need a little research to see which ones contain it.