Software drops, menus remain but won't run in Leopard

I have just upgraded to Leopard and am suddenly losing apple apps after they are open for a few minutes. They don't totally crash, the window just disappears and the menu remains as if the window is there but none of the functions can be used. It started with Address book, and now iPhoto, and iTunes I discovered today.
It seems to be happening on my newer laptop too. I have repaired the permissions on both and that hasn't worked. I have also tried opening on login but the program window just disappears for no apparent reason. I haven't found anyone else with this problem on the support threads. Has anyone had this happen?

rhsummers wrote:
Hopefully I can find some help here. I just upgrades from 10.4.11. Here are my steps -
Upgrade to 10.5.4, repaired permissions, ran all software updates
Main Stage crashes during loading, Logic crashes going through global/audio preferences
Installed 10.5.5 Combo update. No change. Repaired permissions. No change.
Trashed all preferences for all Logic Studio apps. No change.
Trashed everything Logic Studio, reinstalled Logic and Main Stage only. Installation successful. Ran software updates - successful. Still having the same problems. Main Stage crashes during load up. Logic crashes in preferences and settings windows. Repaired permissions. No change.
I have a M-Audio 410 running the old and new drivers didn't change. The problem persists regardless of using the internal audio source or the 410.
BTW, Pro Tools works perfectly. Reason works perfectly. iTunes/Quicktime work perfectly.
What can I do?
Thanks
It could be Protools related, especially since in the Global audio preferences, where you say Logic crashes, you can also set DAE. Try disabling DAE in Protools first perhaps? If that doesn't help, try trash DAE prefs.
Btw, how does it crash? "Quit Unexpectedly"? Or freezing and "not responding"? Do you get a crash report?
regards, Erik.
ps. compliments for your summary of the problem, core info all there, including all you've excluded and tried already. We'll sort it out...

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