Safari and iChat won't launch

Hi,
I have just updated to 10.5.1 and now when I try to open Safari I get a message saying 'You cannot use the application 'safari' with this version of Mac OS X'. The same happened with iChat
What can I do?
Thanks
Tom
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Process: iChat [573]
Path: /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat
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Version: ??? (???)
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Code Type: X86 (Native)
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