Apple Mail continues to crash and will not respond!

I am growing extremely frustrated because I am unable to use my Apple Mail program. Everytime I try to download my email the program will lock-up and stop responding. Most of the time I have to do a "force quit" and restart the Apple Mail program and I noticed that it is downloading the same emails as much as 8 times and then it will lock-up and not respond within seconds. I have deleted the Apple Mail program and re-installed it. I have removed the Apple Mail preferences files and restarted the program and it works for a couple of sessions and then it will stop responding again. I am totally unable to recall several of my important emails and attachments because the program continues to lock-up and not respond. Can someone please assist me in correcting this problem. I really need to gain access to my emails and attachments because of some mission-critical assignments. This problem has been going on for the past 3 months and I want to find a complete solution to this problem. I have been to the Genius Bar at the Somerset Mall in Troy, Michigan on several occasions and they are completely useless and perplexed by my continuous problem. So I am asking for help and assistance from this Tiger Forum Group to help me solve this serious problem. I would appreciate your help and assistance as soon as possible.

Macman,
have you read a current thread with similar problems and followed the iinstructions you can find here?
First, run Disk Utilties and repair permissions.
Duplicate the folder yourhome/Library/Mail and set it on the desktop just as a precaution. Open System preferences and run Software updates to make your system current.
The see if you find any new clues in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=451730&tstart=0 and report any failures to suggestions that are mentioned there.

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