2007-07 update disaster?

I've never had a problem with updates before, but on my PB G4
I am having a disaster since I installed 2007-07 the other day.

Google Earth does not run anymore. It uses 100% of the CPU
and blasts out zillions of messages on the console.

Both Firefox and Safari crash on pages such as,
conveniently enough, earth.google.com.

GE's failure messages are about "fatal exception in the ATSServer".

Even the Dock is crashing!
Finder crashed once, also.

In the CrashReporter logs, all of the applications are having the
same error: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS
with varying addresses, but usually crashing in the ATSServer thread.

There are no "haxies" or anything installed.

This happens whether I am using the wireless or Ethernet.

I went looking for info about this, and found:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/24/os-x-10-4-10-update-causing-widespread-wifi-problems/

We already mentioned the audio bug that
popped up with the OS X 10.4.10 update
(since hopefully corrected). Now reader
Josh writes in to say that 10.4.10 also
introduced a nasty wifi bug that's
apparently causing both repeated
connection loss and even kernel panics
for a lot of users. There's a long
thread on the Apple discussions boards,
and independent confirmations from
around the macweb. The main workaround
so far is to go wired (which is hardly a
workaround if you ask me).

If you haven't thus far updated, it
would probably be a good idea to hold
off yet again until Apple can get this
fixed. How many of you are experiencing
problems?

I haven't found the Apple discussion board they refer to.
Has anyone here had these problems?
.

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