Safari 4: Suddenly ALL windows disappear (until Mac is restarted)

Three times in the past week and without any other symptoms: Safari will suddenly "refuse" to display not only web pages (ie no browser window at all) but won't display Bookmarks or Activity window either. Kinda creepy: when I have several pages open and quit Safari after they disappear - the usual message "You have x windows open...." appears.
All three times: emptying caches, clearing history does nothing. Today (3rd instance), I tried resetting Safari in addition and then quit Safari and relaunched: still no windows at all.
I'm waiting for Safari to do this again and will double check on a couple of things which "accompanied" this behavior: (1) In the first instance, I tried launching Firefox and it too wouldn't show any window. (2) Today, I tried to go the the Utilities Folder so I could check Volume validation and run Permissions Repair: the Utilities folder (window!) wouldn't open either! So I restarted the Mac Pro and everything returned to normal.
Looks like it's a Finder problem which "just happens to affect Safari" - but that's the first and main symptom so far. I'm having no other problems at all.
Anyone have an idea of what's going on and how to fix it?

Thanks, Carolyn.
I'll try trashing the prefs file and logging into another account. I know about these things but thought I'd check around first to see if anyone's seen this "behavior" first.
Between the time of my post and yours: I used GraphicConverter to "open a jpeg" and got another "non-window." So the behavior is more on the Finder side than on the Safari side. GC seemed to recover on it's own (it never locked up or crashed), the next jpeg opened in a normal window. (And no, the first jpeg wasn't a corrupt file - checked that too.)
What I'm seeing is troubling only because it started suddenly on a well-maintained Mac and shows no other symptoms. Console shows what I have believed to be normal actiivity like this:
Dec 25 17:08:49 obamas-mac-pro kextd[10]: WARNING: /System/Library/Extensions: No such file or directory
Dec 25 17:09:15: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 25 17:09:15 obamas-mac-pro com.apple.coreservicesd[55]: NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
Dec 25 17:09:45: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 25 17:18:11 obamas-mac-pro LCCDaemon[105]: Opening Logitech Updater in automatic mode
Dec 25 17:18:11 obamas-mac-pro LCCDaemon[105]: Logitech Updater automatic check not old enough
Dec 25 17:19:11 obamas-mac-pro LCCDaemon[105]: Logitech Updater automatic check not old enough
Dec 25 17:22:43 obamas-mac-pro com.apple.coreservicesd[55]: NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
Dec 25 17:22:48: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 25 17:22:47 obamas-mac-pro [0x0-0x1c01c].com.apple.Safari[169]: Debugger() was called!
Dec 25 17:27:43 obamas-mac-pro com.apple.coreservicesd[55]: NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
Dec 25 17:29:11: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 25 18:03:55 obamas-mac-pro com.apple.coreservicesd[55]: NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
Dec 25 18:04:00: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 25 18:04:00 obamas-mac-pro Mail[150]: IPCClient: Server port 0 is invalid; looking it up again...
Dec 25 19:06:46 obamas-mac-pro /usr/sbin/ocspd[314]: starting
Dec 25 19:14:41 obamas-mac-pro com.apple.coreservicesd[55]: NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
Dec 25 19:16:46: --- last message repeated 1 time
Other than the Safari debugger call, I can't see anything significant there. Should add that I just updated Safari from .03 to .04 today: two of four incidents occurred before the update.
The invalid mail server port is not connected - and Mail.app is not giving any trouble so I'm ignoring that for now.
I am backed up already: Internal RAID plus 1 TB external plus: I have two boot drives with duplicate files in the Mac Pro. (Not counting the old eMac on my home network.)
I'll report back - probably after all this Christmas Joy is over.

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