Unable to close windows

I didn't find any other threads on this problem, so evidently it's just my system?
A few days ago I installed the latest Tiger security patch (2007-009), Java 6 update and Quicktime 7.3.1 update.
Since then I am unable to close ANY window in Safari. Safari seems to work fine otherwise. I can browse and open tabs and windows, and websites can create new windows, but then I can not close ANY of the windows. I can close tabs but not windows. When I click the Close button, nothing happens, and when I use ⌘+W, nothing happens.
So, after a while of surfin' the 'net, I end up with a bunch of open windows of various sizes. When I re-open Safari, I get one new window with the Home tab.
I just recently began using Safari again, because it's 3x faster than Firefox on my iBook, but now I've got this problem.
Any ideas?
I will likely be calling Apple Support today, although I hate to, as I've found them to be very unknowledgeable and unhelpful in the past.

Hi,
Go to these 2 locations to see if you have any 3rd party extensions and move anything present in them onto your Desktop to deactivate them:
/Users/YourUsername/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/InputManagers/
Restart Safari to pick up the change. If it works now, you can try moving the items back one by one until you find the culprit.
If that doesn't help, or you don't have those folders, one quick test you can do to help narrow down things is to try Safari in another user account. This will help us to know whether your problem is local to your account or system wide. If you don't have another account you can use System Preferences -> Accounts -> \[+\] to create a test one (and \[-\] to remove it if needed)

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