Mail freezing -- unable to open any messages

Hello -
I've normally been running OSX 10.3.3. This system has been totally stable. I also had OSX10.3.8 installed on a second internal hard drive for testing purposes. This afternoon, I upgraded the 10.3.8 system to 10.3.9 using the combo updater.
After the upgrade was complete, I rebooted from my primary system drive (10.3.3) and attempted to check my email. Mail (it now says v. 1.3.11) acted strangely -- it downloaded 2 copies of each new email, and then froze as soon as I attempted to open any email. This behavior is now constant - if I open Mail and then click on any email in any mailbox, Mail freezes and I have to force quit.
I've tried discarding the Mail p.list, I've removed my inbox from the Library folder, I've repaired permissions, I've run Disc Warrior. No joy.
Is it possible that when I upgraded to 10.3.9 on my second drive, the upgrade somehow messed with the Mail program on my primary drive and updated it to a version which is not compatible with 10.3.3? And if so, how do I revert back to the proper version of Mail?
The only other noteworthy point is the (possibly coincidental) fact that when I checked my email that first time after completing the upgrade, the new message contained several unusually large attacments (between 2 and 4megs each) -- I don't know if these overloaded Mail. However, if this were the case, I would have thought that removing my In Box to the desktop and forcing the creation of a new In Box would have solved the problem.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Zack
G4 sawtooth with 1.3Ghz CPU upgrade, 1.25 gb RAM   Mac OS X (10.3.3)  

OK, finally figured this out. When I updated the system on my second drive to OS10.3.9, the combo updater somehow updated the mail program on my primary drive (OS 10.3.3) to Mail 1.3.11 This later version of mail is apparently incompatible with the earlier system (10.3.3), hence my problems. When I threw out the updated version of Mail, and reinstalled the version of Mail present on the 10.3.3 installer (Mail v.1.3.4), then put back my old preferences and mailboxes, everything worked fine.
It's REALLY FRUSTRATING that Apple would do such boneheaded thing as allow an updater which is being applied to a system on one drive to mess with an application on a different drive that is associated with a different system. It only wasted two days of my life to work this out. AARRGGHH!
Zack

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