Safari In Snow Leopard Not 64-Bit?

Hi, All!
I installed a copy of Snow Leopard a few days ago. The install went fine, and everything seems fine after the update, except:
I read multiple times that Snow Leopard would come with an updated, 64-Bit version of applications such as Safari. But when I open Safari and look at the process in Activity Monitor, under Kind [of memory] it says, "Intel," not "Intel (64-bit)," like other things (such as the Finder). Is this supposed to be like this? I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong.
One thing that I think may have casued the problem:
After installing Snow Leopard, I saw a folder on the disc called Optional Installs. I thought it was odd that I would need to install these things again, as I thought I had already installed them by clicking Customize in the initial Snow Leopard installation. But, I thought, better safe than sorry, so I installed them again via the Optional Installs package. Afterwards, I got this message:
But, the latest update at the link given is for 10.5.8. Do I really install that?
I realize now that it was probably unnecessary to run the Optinal Installs package.
So, what should I do?
How do I get the 64-Bit Safari, or do I have it already?
If possible, I want to avoid reinstalling 10.6.
Thanks in advance!
-Nate

Greetings,
Safari 4.0.3 is not 64-bit compatible; besides, it wouldn't do you any good if it was, since Safari is not a memory-intensive application, and 64-bit applications have only a minor speed advantage in handling large amounts of RAM.
The Optional Installs folder is only if you need to reinstall an application that is normally installed by default; there wasn't any need or reason for you to go in there. You already have the latest version of Safari.

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