Safari 2.0.3 GIF animation

I downloaded all the updates yesterday (10.4.4, Quicktime 7.0.4, and iTunes 6.0.3).
I've noticed a problem that has cropped up in Safari 2.0.3 and any browser that uses Safari's rendering engine such as Shiira. Certain animated GIFs do not display correctly. Trying them in other browsers such as Camino they display correctly.
The image drags, kind of stacks each frame on top of each other. It is rather difficult to describe, so I'll link to a GIF that has the problem. In this particular one the word "words" should only appear once. It should move from the top position to the bottom, as the head moves up and down. When displayed in Safari, the top "words" stays while the bottom "words" is displayed. Sorry for the stupid example, but its small and reproducible.
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8883/emotwords9sj.gif
This may be a wider problem than just Safari, I've used two image viewers (EOS Image Manager and Xee) and the GIF displays incorrectly in those viewers, too.
G4 Sawtooth @ 450MHz Mac OS X (10.4.4) 768MB RAM, ATI 9800 Pro

What's worse is that when you have a rather big animated gif, it will crash Safari. And with big, I mean filesize, not pixel size.
This avatar is only 16x16 pixels, but is 156K big. Opening it in Safari will give you the spinning beach ball.
(Don't blame me if Safari crashes... You don't HAVE to click the link, you know.)

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