Skype keeps crashing

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dad complained Skype does not work anymore. I logged in (via log me in). Check hard drive, repaired permissions, downloaded the latest version of Skype. he is running 10.6.1 on a Dell mini 10 (cannot updated past 10.6.1, at least not while he is thousands miles way, last time he bricked it).

My guess is that he has an older version running fine and Skype updated and something does not work now. I plan to aski him to plug in the USB Time Machine hard drive and restore Skype to an earlier version which worked several months ago. Until then maybe someone has an idea how to get a recent version of Skype running.

Here is the report I get


Process: Skype [309]
Path: /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/MacOS/Skype
Identifier: com.skype.skype
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [84]

Date/Time: 2013-11-17 21:01:10.775 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 239846 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 17
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 16
Anonymous UUID: E1789E2B-115E-4B4A-8510-40DE5802DF98

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000000000000b
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.skype.skype 0x00611a92 0x1000 + 6359698

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x0061114f ecx: 0x8fe42f10 edx: 0x01ae3dfb
edi: 0x01ae3e0e esi: 0x00000090 ebp: 0x00000000 esp: 0xbffff8a0
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x00611a92 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x0000000b

Binary Images:
0x1000 - 0xa4efff +com.skype.skype 6.9 (6.9.0.701) <46320E6C-A172-3C2A-8D4A-24276B597010> /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/MacOS/Skype
0x1b07000 - 0x1cabfeb libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x1d2b000 - 0x1d2efe7 libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) <1622A54F-1A98-2CBE-B6A4-2122981A500E> /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x1d45000 - 0x1d45ff7 com.apple.Accelerate 1.5 (Accelerate 1.5) /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Accelerate
0x1d48000 - 0x1d48ff7 com.apple.Accelerate.vecLib 3.5 (vecLib 3.5) <3E039E14-2A15-56CC-0074-EE59F9FBB913> /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib