Apple Mail / Font Cache Problem

Is anyone else experiencing problems with Apple Mail (4.2) and font caches? Recently the copy of Mail on my desktop Mac seems to find it increasingly hard to maintain both incoming and outgoing connections to GMail - it connects intermittently (if at all) although my internet connection is fine. Also my laptop (with pretty much the same configuration and with the same fonts) does not seem to have the same problem. As far as I can recall this only started after updating to 10.6.2.
There is no problem when I boot in Safe Mode.
The only work around that I have found so far is to clear the user & system font cache (using Onyx) and restart. This then allows me to send & receive for a short time until the problem occurs again. I have tried to check whether any of the system / library fonts have become corrupted but it appears not (according to FontDoctor). I am not experiencing any other font-related issues.
Any ideas as to what could be doing the damage or at least how I might try to track down the cause of the problem?

MacBook Pro, !0.8.2
Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors
There are options available for messages.
Click the "Select" button.
A window will pop up and from that font size can be selected.

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0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; =
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<font color=3D"#808080" size=3D"2">Tel: **************
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</font>
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</div>

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