Strange behavior (disappearing buttons, tabs, and more)

Very recently (within the past 3 days and long after installing 10.4.9) Safari on my iMac G5 has been exhibiting very strange behavior.
Some of the symptoms:
- crashes frequently for no apparent reason
- toolbar loses buttons and/or buttons are there but don't react to mouse clicks; sometimes a standard button, like forward, will simply disappear while backward remains
- text in URL field will become 'bolded' and sometimes difficult to read/blurry
- tabs often lose their dividing line boundaries
- auto entries usually not present
I have erased the preference list for Safari in my user library and repaired my permissions without any success.
Any suggestions?
Thank you very much for any help.

Hi
Please post a crash report - when Safari crashes, the "quit" panel has a "report" button. Select it, then copy/paste the entire contents to your reply.
While you are at it, try the site from another User Account. If you need to create a new account, please follow these steps:
Here is guidance from Apple on how to set up the account. You can ignore step 7 in the article.
Also, on the system preference>Accounts panel, click on "log-in" options. There, select "fast user switching". This allows you to go back and forth between user accounts via an icon in your Menu Bar at the top of the computer screen.
Log-on to the new account and start Safari. If Safari is stable in the new account, then your problem is specific to your regular user account. Otherwise, similar response means a system-wide problem.
Post back with results.

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