Programs keep shutting down when opening - please help

Hi,
My imac keeps shutting down my programs when I'm using them. For example I can change my screensaver image to images from a chosen, when I try the program shuts down, same as safari and mac the ripper. Some of my other programs do not even open for me, like pages and keynote, they just do nothing. Pleas help its getting really annoying and I've tried to find out whats the problem but nothing I do is helping.
Regards
Alladnek2
imac g5 1.9ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Welcome to the discussions!
Have you tried creating a new user account and launching the apps there? If they work under the new account, then it is possible that you have a corrupted pref file.
I had this happen on my eMac, but it was when I was a newer Mac user and didn't know much. I ended up reinstalling to OS - which corrected it - but that is a bit drastic.
Let's not do that, but try some other troubleshooting first.

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