The 10.5.3 update crashes .mac

Hi All,
I'm curious to know if anyone has experienced this problem and if they have found a solution. It's occurring on my Macbook Pro that I've had for barely six months and just updated to 10.5.3; Since installing the update, clicking on the .mac preference pane crashes the preferences app. Some random glitches have also appeared in other applications, e.g. navigating to the Apple UK store causes Safari to crash (nice one, guess I won't be buying any more stuff from Apple!). This only happens when I am connected to the internet via the airport.
Not being able to change my .mac preferences is bad enough but the really significant problem is the effect on two other processes, filesyncagent and dotmacsyncclient. They each start up automatically and proceed to run constantly at around 90% CPU each. Based on the their names and some digging around I know there are to do with the synchronisation of my iDisk and other .mac stuff and therefore related to the same issue. The result is that my battery runs down within an hour unless I kill the processes.
This is a really serious problem for me (and I assume many others). I would appreciate any help anyone out there has to offer.
Many thanks.

Are you by any chance using a proxy server that works through a .pac file? If so, go to System Preferences>Network>Advanced...>Proxies and disable it, just to see if that helps. I think OS 10.5.3 introduced a javascript incompatibility with proxy .pac servers.

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