Safari not opening at all

Trying to open Safari version 4.1 (which I believe is the newest version) but no browsing window pops up when I click the app button on the dock. Additionally, when I press -Q (command-q) to close the program, an error report appears (Safari has closed unexpectdly).
Any thoughts at all as to what may be glitched with my version?
TIA.

Aha!
Scrolling through another thread, and the person in the link below had the same problem as me.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2491581&tstart=1
Many thanks to ~Bee for a great, easy-to-follow answer that enabled me to get it working again.

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