Safari Scrolling Demons

Safari has begun to act really really screwy. When I scroll, either with the scroll wheel on my mouse, or with the scroll arrows at either end of the thumbwheel, parts of the page I'm on will scroll at different rates than other parts. Mostly picture blocks will stay stationary while text scrolls, but the whole screen can almost disintegrate with various 'particles' of different areas appearing at will. I've trashed prefs, repaired permissions, even trashed Safari entirely and reinstalled from Apple's support download. Same same. Anyone have any ideas? I use Firefox as an alternative, but I actually like Safari better (Firefox doesn't respond to keyboard commands)and would like to see it work properly again. Thanks.

Hi Bee-
Like I said, I trashed everything to do with Safari on this drive and reinstalled from scratch, after having reset the old copy, trashed the icons folders, and emptied the cache. But I went ahead and did all that on the new copy anyway, and still same same. I installed the 10.3.9 combo update awhile ago and had terrible trouble with QuickTime, so I just cloned my backup onto the main hard drive again and have left it at that ever since. I've been intending to leapfrog 10.3.9 and go directly to Tiger, but I've been waiting for all the bug fixes, since my system up to now has been behaving splendidly, and I didn't and don't want to hassle with the 10.3.9 bugs again. This happened all at once with no warning and with no other apps acting up whatsoever, and I can't think of anything I might have updated which might be playing poorly with Safari. I'm stumped.

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