Software update - mail, safari & iphoto won't load

I am having a problem after trying to update safari yesterday. The update failed for some reason and when I restarted this morning I could not load mail, safari or iphoto but ical,address book and firefox (and other non ilife programs) load up as normal.
The standard reaction when I click the icon on the dock is for the icon to bounce once and then nothing. I have tried opening from the Apps folder but no difference. What can I do to sort it out. Any help much appreciated,
thanks
roop

roop,
If you updated Safari using Apple's Software Update than it may have installed the wrong version for your computer as a number of users reported in various forums. On MacInTouch user Tom Freridge stated:
+I believe there are two different Safari installers, one for PPC cpu and one for Intel cpu, and Software Update may not be choosing the correct version.+
+I'm running 10.4.11 on a PPC. When I installed Safari 3.1 via Software Updater, it failed just as others as have mentioned. I trashed it, reinstalled 3.04, then went to Apple.com and downloaded the installer to my desktop. When the dmg file unstuffs, there were actually two installers, one for PPC cpu and one for Intel cpu.+
+I installed the security update first (which wasn't available on Software Update when I first updated to Safari 3.1), restarted the computer, fixed permissions, then installed Safari from the PPC installer on my desktop and fixed permission again. Now everything seems to work fine.+
If you don't have Safari 3.0.4, then I suggest you delete the 3.1 receipt and the path to that is HD/Library/Receipts/Safari31UpdUniv.pkg or Safari31UpdPPC.pkg as the case may be. Then download Safari 3.1 from Apple.com to your desktop. Launch Disk Utilities (in the Utilities folder) and Repair Disk Permissions. Next, open the downloaded Safari.dmg, double click on the PPC version and follow the prompts. Afterwards, repair disk permissions again.
Hope this helps.

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