Safari, iChat & SoftwareUpdater suddenly not working.

Recently certain applications on my computer haven't been working. Whenever I open any of the following applications (Safari, iChat & Software Updater),I get the rolling little beachball and it freezes up the program. What is causing this and what can I do to fix it? Thanks!

Ok...an update......actually there are many things not working with my computer now it seems....all of my system preferences/control panels, ichat, safari, sherlock, preview, stickies, mail, ical. Whenever I try to open any of these applications I just get the spinning little beachball and it freezes up in that application so I have to do a force quit.
One thing I did try was to boot up from the disk and 'repair permissions'.
But this did not seem to help.
This is quite frustrating to not be able to do anything on my computer.
If anyone has anything to offer I would much appreciate it.
Thanks.

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