X11 won't open new terminals in 10.4.9

After updating to 10.4.9 on my Intel MacBook (2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160GB HD), X11 has begun to act very flaky. At random intervals it will just start refusing to open new xterm's, at which point I have to restart X11, killing all the open windows I have.
This is particularly annoying, since essentially 100% of the work I do is Unix/X11 based. My laptop has essentially become useless for work. I certainly won't be updating to 10.4.9 on my work MacPro, that's for sure!
MacPro, MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

An Archive & Install did the trick, both for my X11 problem and my KeyChain problem (another thread). I'm sitting at 10.4.8 now, but I have a FireWire external drive on the way, and will try to install up to 10.4.9 on that as a separate bootable system, to see if it works from scratch, more out of curiousity than anything else. I'm happy with 10.4.8.
Thanks baltwo!
MacPro 3.0 GHz Xeons 4GB RAM, MacBook Black 2.0 GHZ Core Duo 2 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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