Lots of crashes since I installed iLife '09

[tonymanifesto]

I've been experiencing crashes when using iMovie '09, as well as most of the applications I use on a daily basis. My Finder has been crashing a lot as well after I installed iLife. This occurs a couple of times a day, and the error reports give the exception codes "KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at ... " and other variants of that. What is causing this? How can I fix it?

This is another portion of an example report, this just happened:

Process: GarageBand [842]
Path: /Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/GarageBand
Identifier: com.apple.garageband
Version: 5.0.1 (358)
Build Info: GarageBand_App-3580000~8
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [94]

Date/Time: 2009-03-02 20:41:28.843 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 13

and this is my system config

Model: MacBook3,1, BootROM MB31.008E.B02, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GHz, 1 GB
Graphics: kHW_IntelGMA965Item, GMA X3100, spdisplays_builtin, 144 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 512 MB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 512 MB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz

I feel like some crashes are due to the fact that I need more memory but I don't know about all the others.

Thanks in advance

 

[tonymanifesto]

To update the thread, I am still having lots of crashes but I searched other forums and they said that for Finder crashes, to reset Finder settings, but I don't know how to do that.

Should I uninstall all iLife '09 programs and install them again? I'm really going crazy here because this is really messing up my computer. I never thought I would have these problems with a Mac.

 

[benthewraith]

Obligatory have you tried repairing your permissions?

 

[JediMeister]

Resetting Finder's settings is as straightforward as going to (home)/Library/Preferences, locating the Finder.plist, trashing it, then relaunching Finder or restarting the computer.

 

[dolphin842]

Anyone else having problems with iLife 09? I'm hesitating to upgrade, given the rough patches I've seen with iWork 09...

 

[jrock2004]

Now I did not upgrade and my Macbook appears to be find.