Safarinow won't start after Archive and reinstall 10.3.9 to 10.3.7

I went to 10.3.9 and then Quicktime and Jam 6 stopped working, then iTunes.
The local Mac Genius Bar dude suggeted an archive and reinstall back to 10.3.7. (Roxio said I need to go back to 10.3.7 for Jam 6 to work.) OK now Jam 6, QT and iTunes work, but Safari and Netscape communicator either don't start or, if they do, I can't download anything because they both crash when trying to download.
When that happens with Navigator, I get the following crash report:
Date/Time: 2005-12-20 17:55:26 -0500
OS Version: 10.3.7 (Build 7S215)
Report Version: 2
Command: mozilla-bin
Path: /Applications/Netscape.app/Contents/MacOS/mozilla-bin
Version: 7.2 (7.2)
PID: 383
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xc000000a
Is there any way out of this short of a total wipe and reinstall?
Regards,
Ty Ford
500 MHZ G4 Mac OS X (10.3.7)

To A Brody, thanks for the link to the backup info page..that was very helpful.
I'm having a panic with two volumes with 10.3.9 and 10.4.3 getting corrupted and impossible to repair or reinstall...and getting errors that "may be bad blocks...bad media.." and am backing up all the photos and music to a usb ext HD.
I'm only able to start up with os9 and am careful...perhaps not enough, I don't know, to not do anything to the osx files I can see from the other parition with os 9.
So far I've just dragged the files I want to the ext HD. I think I will do it again with a disc image as well, on the same ext HD, and burn dvd's later.So far, testing the backup with another mac in osx, I'm able to see the pictures with Preview, and import the music and play it...but yikes, no backup is like running with scissors. Two different friends are also backup less and they both use their macs for business! I hope to get them fixed up as well.
I'm going to post a new question about the phrase: "Mac OS X can't be installed on an ATA/IDE drive that is configured as a "slave", although it can see and work with such drives.": from one of the best books on OS X. Is this true?
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