Safari 4 "Webpage Preview Fetcher" runaway process

I just installed the new Safari 4 via Software Update Utility. Process called "Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher" is chewing up 50 - 75% of my CPU and isn't stopping. I've tried restarting Safari with no luck. Safari is basically unusable - I'm writing this from Firefox.
Any ideas?

I found this on a board and tried it. Works great with no resulting glitches (so far).
1. Quit Safari 4.0 and right-click on it's icon in the Finder. Select "Show Package Contents".
2. Look inside the Contents folder and right-click on Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher and select Compress "Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher".
3. Put the original Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher in the trash and empty it.
4. Navigate to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Webpage Previews and highlight it. Get Info on it.
5. At the bottom click on the padlock, type in your password and then change the Privilege column for your login name to "Read only" and lock the folder. Close the Get Info window.
6. Launch Safari.

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# Author : Amandeep Singh
# Description : Kills runaway form processes using more than 95% cpu
# and Form Session with no DB session or DB session > 2hrs
# Dated : 11-April-2012
#!/bin/bash
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Edited by: R12_AppsDBA on 19/04/2012 13:10

Thanks for sharing the script!
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