[X-Newbies] Application Failures in OS 10.3.8

[Randy B.Singer]

Carlie Van Winkle said:

>Having issues with my applications unexpectedly
>failing during use. 
...
>I have gone to my System Folders and tried deleting
>any redundancies, but that has not seemed to help this
>matter any.

I suspect that, if you have deleted stuff from your OS X system folder, 
that at this point your installation of OS X is so hosed that the best 
course might be to do an "archive and install" of OS X:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120

>I am also not having real good luck with Safari...

See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107657

I would first try:

Preferential Treatment (free) 
http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/html/pt.html




Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html