Safari 5.0.1 hangs, won't load pages. Can you help?

My MacBook Pro w/OS X (10.5.8) running Safari 5.0.1 will load one light-weight page, maybe two, then hangs when indefinitely while trying to load any other page. The status bar in the lower-most left corner says (for example) "contacting www.google.com" but nothing else happens. Nothing. I've tried "Safari > Reset Safari..." and it misbehaves there, too. When I select "Close all Safari Windows" they close, then the default page launches immediately. I have restarted the software, restarted the computer, trashed plists (but saved my bookmark plist!), trashed the application and the Library/Safari files then downloaded a fresh version of 5.0.1. Despite my efforts, the exact same problem persists.
For what it's worth, this problem was solved the one time it's done this in the past with the Safari > Reset Safari... function, but not this time. Also for what it's worth, I learned just tonight that this problem (and the one other time it happened before) manifested itself after my daughter ripped images from Tumblr and posted them on Facebook.

Hi and welcome to Apple Discussions...
manifested itself after my daughter ripped images from Tumblr and posted them on Facebook.
Open a Finder window. Select your Home folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon. Now open the Library folder, then the Internet Plug-Ins folder.
If you see this file in the Internet Plug-ins folder fbplugin1_01.plugin move it to the Trash.
It's a Facebook plugin that is not compatible with Safari 5.0.1
If you don't see the plugin, in that same Finder window, in the same Library folder, open the Cookies folder and move the Cookies.plist file to the Trash.
And in that same Library folder, open the Caches folder, then the com.apple.Safari folder and move the cache.db file from the com.apple.Safari folder to the Trash.
Relaunch Safari.
If nothing has helped, login on your Mac to another account. Try Safari there.
Carolyn

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