Safari 3.2: keychain trouble

I updated to Safari 3.2, and now when I try to access a passcoded website for which my username and password are stored in my Keychain, I get this message: "Safari has been updated. Do you want to allow the new version to access the same keychain items (such as passwords) as the previous version?" When I click "Change All", it spins for three minutes or more and then doesn't fill in my password on that site. Plus, this is happening each time I try to get on a passcoded website. Help!

After many actions that were unsuccessful, I went to the Mac OSX Software link in the apple menu (top left) and redownloaded, then reinstalled Safari 3.2.1 from the apple website.
When I then restarted (which I was prompted to do after the reinstall), opened Safari, and went to the passcode-asking websites, I got the same message saying that Safari had been updated, etc. (see original question), and I clicked "Change All." This went much more quickly than before (10 seconds v. 4 minutes) and then all seemed to be fixed--each password-asking website had my username and password already entered in automatically and there was no new "Safari has been updated, etc." pop-up, as had been the case before. The only snag: when I directed Safari here to write this, I got that same message again. With trepidation, I clicked "change all" again and after about 60-90 seconds, the pop-up disappeared and my username and password had been entered (which hadn't been happening prior to the redownloading). I rechecked my visits to password-asking sites, and there was still no funny pop-up and my password stuff had been automatically entered from Keychain. So, fingers crossed, it seems to be fixed.

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