Safari 5 wont load!

So here's my problem... I am fixing my friend's computer because her Safari web browser is having problems. What's going on is that whenever she opens Safari after a restart or clean boot, it runs fine; opens web pages, loads everything, nothing wrong. But when she closes it, it keeps running in the background using 100 percent CPU and about 50 megabytes of RAM. The only way to open Safari again is by ending its process in task manager.... so far you see, it's unacceptable, especially for her (she's the type who knows nothing about computers and she just wants it to "work".
Here's what I've done to try to fix it myself:
Uninstall/Reinstall Safari (latest version from Apple)
Run a registry/junk cleaner (CCleaner, Auslogics, Advanced System Care Pro)
Run a thorough disk check (all five stages)
All of these things have not changed the behavior of Safari.
Here's her computer specs:
HP Pavilion dv8315nr Laptop
1 GB Ram (I'm upgrading to 2 GB for her tomorrow)
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit, 100GB HD, ATI Radeon XPress 3200 (i think... I don't have the computer with me currently)
Microsoft Security Essentials (antivirus, antispyware)+Windows Firewall
Drivers and software/patches/updates are all up to date
And please, do not tell me to switch browsers. This is the only browser that she will use, mostly because all 400 bookmarks of hers are on there, and this is the only browser she knows how to use. She refuses to switch (I've recommended Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and even IE, but no.)
Perhaps there's a conflicting service or program on her computer? But I can't find anything that might be conflicting with it.... As far as I know, nothing has changed on her computer since I last worked on it about 4 weeks ago, and she hasn't complained until today.
I will be working on her laptop again tomorrow, so hopefully someone with an answer will come along and see my question... Because last resort will maybe be either a full restore or a painstaking browser change...
Anything will help, any suggestions or ANYTHING would do. Thanks in advance!

Just pushing the red X should just quit the program, window and it's process altogether
Closing all open windows should end the process in XP and Vista too, as well as 7.
If you've got a chance, try checking to see if the effect is user account specific or systemwide. (This isn't a cure in itself, but can help us narrow in on possibilities and rule out some others.)
Create a new Windows User Account with full administrative rights. Log out of your usual account, and log into the new one. (Don't use fast user switching to move between accounts.)
Try launching and quitting Safari in the new account. Does Safari.exe end smoothly after the quit in there? Or is it the same sort of behavior as in the usual account.)

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