Safari 3 Messed Me Up

So tonight i decided that i would download safari 3 beta (for mac) it wouldnt work. pages werent loading.. instead of messing around with it, i just deleted it, and reinstalled safari 2... now for some reason, on a lot of pages, when i type the address, i have have to hit enter, let it load, and get a blank, or close to blank page, then i hit enter again, and the page loads. Also I have noticed that it keeps kicking me off of msn since the change.
most websites are doing this, and its a real pain. I've repaird permissions, both on the harddrive and from the disk, i've reset safari, emptied cache and all that.. i dunno what else to do.

Hi
Perhaps the preference file was corrupted (hope it's that easy of a fix). In the Finder, go to your User Library>Preferences folder and move to the desktop the com.apple.safari.plist file. Restart Safari. If Safari is operating properly, you'll need to reset any custom preference settings, plus any View Menu items and the Spelling checker in the Edit Menu.
If no improvement, move the original file back to its original location.
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