Red X will not close safari windows after 10.4.4 update

I can not close my safari sessions with red red X...any help?

Hi, Jeffrey, welcome to Apple's user-to-user discussion forums.
There are a few things you should try to see if they fix Safari.
First, have you repaired permissions? This should be standard procedure after updates. If you haven't, run Disk Utility in the Utilities folder in Applications. Click on the icon for youe hard disk and then click on Repair Permissions. You can let it run in the background.
Next, empty Safari's cache. Not closing with the red dot does not sound cache-related, but this is easy to do and will rule it out. Go to Safari > Empty Trash.
If that does not work, delete Safari's Preferences. The file is named "com.apple.Safari.plist". The fastest way to find it is to paste the name (without quotes) in Spotlight. You will get one entry. Click on Show All and you will be able to drag the plist to the trash. Restart Safari and try again.
One more thing you can try is to see if the problem occurs in a new user account. To create a new account, open System Preferences and click on Accounts. You may have to click on the padlock and give your admin name and password to create an account. Click on the plus sign in the lower right corner to create the new account. I see no reason to give it a password. You can delete this account later using using the minus key, although I have kept my second account to use for testing (the user folder only takes up 32 kb).
Do these things one at a time and recheck Safari at each step. Let us know what happens and, if needed, we can go on from there.

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