SOCKS + SSL = trouble (Safari crashes, Mail.app doesn't connect)

I use a SOCKS (v4) proxy over an SSH tunnel to connect to applications at work, as do many of my co-workers.
Safari will often (even usually) crash hard when using SOCKS if you try to connect to an SSL (i.e. https://) site.
We recently migrated to IMAP over SSL for Mail, and Mail.app cannot connect successfully to the IMAP server; it gets a generic "SSL error" (NOT a certificate error).
Both work fine over a plain SSH tunnel, and both work fine without SOCKS. Firefox and Thunderbird work fine over SOCKS for such sites (note that they don't use the system-wide settings/libraries). Other users at my workplace are seeing the same behaviour.
It seems to me that there might be a bug in the SOCKS implementation, or SSL libraries, or combination thereof, provided by OSX.
Can anyone else confirm this?
15" PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I know nothing about your problem, but wonder if this older article on 10.4.7 "fixing" the problem, mighn't give you a clue or two...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303771

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