Problems with Safari

That sucks big time!

OK, it's an obvious one but have you repaired permissions?

How about deleting the Safari prefs?

 

That really does suck. The fact that you've installed and reinstalled is kind of weird. Personally, I would recommend using Firefox, but I know if something doesn't work right on my machines I can't sleep at night. Check the settings on the prefs..maybe set the back to default.

 

Only time I've ever seen this behavior is when you try to launch a program that requires a higher operating system, i.e., trying to launch a program that requires 10.3 when you only have Jaguar (10.2).

I know you said you have a G5, but is it possible you've installed the latest Safari update but you don't have the latest Panther update?

Edit: I just saw you said you have the latest OS X updates.

I dunno, that's a puzzler. Have you tried trashing the Safari .plist? It's in your Home>Library>Preferences folder. You can remove the Safari program, but you might still be holding onto a corrupt preferences file.

That's all I can think of.

 

Try running "preferential Treatment" It scans all pref file to see if they are corrupt.