Safari 4 Clamshell iBook Problems

I have a clamshell iBook (466 graphite) and was using Safari 4 beta and it was working fine. Downloaded the 4.0 release tonight (6/8/09) and all **** broke loose. I no longer have a visible google home page, no scroll bars (800x600 is the max setting for this computer) and my bookmarks bar shows up briefly when Safari opens (in black letters on a white background) then disappears. If I use the google search in the upper right corner I get results (in a higher screen resolution setting) but no way to scroll down or over. I was able to download Firefox, just barely, as the download dialog box was just visible on the right hand side of my screen. Seems strange that Apple would cue me to do this Safari download without checking how it would work on this old but still viable iBook.

Just a little update, I went and worked with a Genius today to try and resolve the Safari 4.0 problem. The gentleman thought that the problem we are having might have to do with our graphics card. He thought that there might be a way to try and let Safari work with our underpowered graphics card (and low resolution) but that it would (might) slow down a number of things. Since we are underpowered CPU wise, we did not try it.
The problem is that if we try and deinstall Safari 4.0, we need to insure that the Web Kit (Java?) is also removed otherwise we may have problems with Safari 3.0.
There is no easy way to go back. I am limited on HD space and need to get an external HD in order to do a reinstall and archive to get Safari 3.0 back which i believe has already been described here in the forum.
I went through this with Safari 3.0 initially when after downloading I and others had problems with Iwork and Mail, again another web kit or Java incompatibility.
Has anyone performed the Archive and reinstall back to Safari 3.0 with no problems?
Thanx again.

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