Mail 2.1.3 won't work

I'm totally exhausted trying to figure out this problem... Every few weeks, my Mail 2.1.3 fails... I can receive emails, but when I go to push SEND or REPLY or FORWARD... nothing happens. If I type, it starts overlapping and mixing up the words, like it's possessed! I've used ONYX to try to get things working again. I've also gone to Utilities and Disk Utility and deleted the Preference and restarted, to no avail. Also, if I am using Safari now, I can't type and it goes bonkers. I've had to go to our lone PC in the building so I could write this. I've spent 5 hours working on this so far today... H-E-L-P!!!!!! Thank you.

Thanks for your questions. Actually, I did two Archive and Installs and one Erase and Install. In every instance by the time I got the OS up to 10.4.11 (via one combined update) things started acting funky. iPhoto wouldn't work — to get it running required an overwrite install via iLife 05, Appleworks 6 won't open and, as mentioned Mail never worked from the get-go.
I have tried reinstalling only Mail. But as yet no luck getting it to work.
I have been trolling around the forums and have noted a lot of problems regarding Mail in 10.4. When I have time, I will try some of the simpler, albeit arcance, suggested solutions.

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Have you done any of the standard troubleshooting outlined in the manual?
Restart?
Reset?
Restore?
Restore as new phone?

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Hello everybody!
I have a problem, I can't resolve right now. I have a CaCert.org certificate for my emails. I importetd it to my keyring, where it shows up and is marked as trusted. So no problem till this point.
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Huh. Sascha, with apologies, I think this is a case of wanting to answer the question I wanted to ask, not the question you actually asked.
For signing and encrypting, you need to have imported your personal certificate, and its corresponding private key, into your keychain. If you have done so, it will show up, in the Keychain app under My Certificates and you should be able to verify it as being correctly trusted (by you). This should be in the login keychain.
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Try:
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I took it in to my university's apple care and they wiped and reinstalled the OS.
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