Safari Won't Store Passwords In Keychain

Hello everyone,
Since upgrading to Mac OS 10.4.11 and installing Safari 3.2.1, we've had nothing but problems with Safari 3.2.1. Crashes. Quits. Web sites loading half way and stopping. Web sites not loading at all. Safari refusing to even open at times. I hope Apple has some fixes on the way as I've noticed lots of similar problems for other users.
One annoying problem, though. Every time I get asked to enter a user id and password with the option to "Remember this password in my keychain", I tell Safari to remember it but it never does. I have to re-enter it and re-enter it every time (to access my Router for example). I have the "Autofill" section in preferences checked to remember "user names and passwords" as well as for "other forms".
Does anyone else have this problem? Or might there be a problem with my keychain itself?
Thanks,
Gerard

I've unchecked the box labelled "Warn when visiting a fraudulent website" and restarted Safari many times. It doesn't crash all the time but the worst part of it all is the partial loading of web sites (which doesn't happen in Firefox). A web site will load half way and just "stall". Hit reload over and over and over and finally it goes. Resetting Safari and deleting the prefs file will sometimes solve this problem for a half a day or so and then the problem starts all over again.
Safari is saving some passwords but when a password dialog box comes up asking to store it in the keychain, the passwords won't store. Is there a keychain repair utility or a way of fixing the keychain if it is corrupted?
Thanks so much,
Gerard

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