Updated Software on Saturday, Now my MBP is all messed up

So I'm a long time user of Windows machines and I converted to a Mac about 2 years ago. My knowledge on how to fix a Mac is pretty limited so I'm having some serious trouble figuring my issue out.
Saturday my MBP ran the software update and told me to install : Canon Printer Software version 2.5; Security Update 2011-002 version 1.0; and Safari version 5.0.5.
Shortly after installing those 3 updates my machine now takes forever to start up (which is never has), it refuses to play a flash video anywhere (whether on facebook or youtube), and it won't load many of my programs such as Itunes.
For the video issue, if I try to view a video it gives me a pop up and says: flash player (safari internet plug-in) quit unexpectedly.
I can't even open Firefox to see if this is the same issue.
When I try to open ITunes, I get the error: ITunes quit unexpectedly.
Please respond if you are able to help, I would most appreciate it!

namesser wrote:
I haven't made a backup of this ever. Didn't really know how and honestly I didn't expect this kind of crap from a Mac.
I have had very reliable Macs.... one 11 year old one still gets used every day. But things happen...even to trusty Macs. Before I got DiskWarrior I had directory corruption so bad I lost eveything on the drive. It took me three months to re-enter all my Investment transactions from paper copies after an erase. DiskWarrior has always saved me since. But I learned to do the following so it would never happen again.
I like the free demo of SuperDuperto make clone backups. It's free, Leopard and Snow ready and is easy to use. If you buy the full version you can do incremental backups.
You should use Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair booted up on your install disk, before you make a clone of it. DiskWarrior is way better to use.
I then partition my external disk, in Disk Utility, with a partition that is the same size , actually a tad bigger, as my system disk. I then use SuperDuper to clone my system disk over to that partition.
With a clone on an external FireWire drive (USB drives are not bootable on PPC Macs but are on some Intel Macs) you can bootup on it to do your repairs or just run your Mac anytime you have trouble with your main drive. Be careful, there are a few external FireWire drives out there that are not bootable on PPC Macs. Check the drive's manual to be sure.
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