Mail Won't Open (Just Installed OS 10.5)

I installed OS 10.5 a few days ago. After doing that, everything worked for a few days. But now, I'm getting a bunch of issues. Most notably, I can't open Mail. It just bounces up and down for a bit. Then I get an error message:
Symbol not found: __useStaticData
What does that mean?
Apparently, it's supposed to be in
/System/Library/Frameworks/Message.framework/Versions/B/Message
But I have no idea what any of this means.

Ryan,
I think we're getting close to the solution of the problem. I have two applications folders. One applications folder is on my internal hard drive. The other applications folder is in my account folder.
Both applications folders contain a "Mail" program as well as a "Safari," an "iTunes," etc., etc..
I just opened the "Mail" program on my hard drive, since the one in my account folder doesn't work. It asked me to input all my pertinent information, which I did.
Then it opened up, but it only had some new mail messages, not all my old folders. So, it works, but I can't access my thousands and thousands of saved e-mail messages. I presume they're floating around somewhere on my computer. Perhaps in that plist file I removed from the library and saved to the desktop???
What do I do next?
Thanks,
Seth

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