Updates break Activity Monitor (Mac Pro & G4)

After applying the recent updates to my Mac Pro Quad Xeon and my G4 dual 800, both running 10.4.11, Activity Monitor does not work on either machine. On double-clicking, I get the launch animation and the Dock expands for less than a second, but the application does not launch. Trashing the .plist file in the User domain prefs folder doesn't help. Neither does Repairing Permissions.
Conversely, Activity Monitor works fine on my iMac, running 10.5.5. All machines are networked via a Time Capsule – the iMac via AirPort, and the desktops directly via ethernet (Cat 5e).
Any ideas about what's gone wrong here?

Good call, BDAqua. I checked in system.log and Crash Reporter. Here are the results for both machines:
Host Name: MacPro
Date/Time: 2008-09-18 19:04:19.386 +0100
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S2167)
Report Version: 4
Command: Activity Monitor
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Parent: WindowServer [68]
Version: 1.5.3 (58)
PID: 486
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit
Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Reason: image not found
Host Name: G-Four
Date/Time: 2008-09-18 19:02:53.323 +0100
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4
Command: Activity Monitor
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Parent: WindowServer [61]
Version: 1.5 (54)
PID: 236
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit
Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Reason: image not found
A library missing on BOTH machines?

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