Mail subject lines blue or disappearing!

My Mail is acting weird for about a week now. Two things.
1. Large numbers of the subject lines in the top panel where my mail is listed will turn blue. They'll turn back to the normal black text sometimes either when I scroll or restart Mail.
2. The subject lines started completely disappearing today! They're still there, as if in white font on white background and I can still click on them and read the email, but they're invisible.
Is Mail malfunctioning because it can't handle thousands of saved emails? That's a bummer if true. I thought I could use it like an archive.
I searched the communities for answers first and read something about "rebuilding" mailboxes which I'd never heard of before. If that's what I need to do can you direct me to complete instructions. I don't want to lose my emails.
Thank you for helping!

Hi Michele,
Not likely too many eMails doing it.
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?
If you want to Rebuild a Mailbox...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions.
In Mail, highlight that Mailbox, under Mail's Mailbox menu item, choose rebuild.
Reboot.

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