Safari has major problems with spell checker

In Lion, the spell checker no longer works.
Not only does it not flag words, but more importantly, if you try to use it and hit a word you want it to ignore, and click ignore...
It trashes whatever you are writing ini the Safari window, and takes you back to the page where you were starting the reply from.
This happens here on the Support community board and on numerous other Vbulletin powered boards (in particular).

This was a frequent topic when iWork '08 was first released. It is related to third-party spell checkers such as SpellCatcher. If they haven't been updated to the newest versions, this error comes up, especially when opening Word documents.
If you have SpellCatcher or another spell checker installed, I would just try disabling it first & see if the problem goes away. If it doesn't, do a Spotlight search for "spell" & see what comes up. Trash anything that looks like it belongs to a third-party spell checker & restart your Mac.

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