Apple Mail will not load

My Apple Mail will appear to open, but will not allow me access or to perform any actions, like to read the messages, or open them, or send mail. This has been going on for at least a month; sometimes repairing disc permissions seems to correct it, sometimes it just has suddenly worked, but tonight it will not let me at my mail at all even though I can see my Mail window. I've repaired permissions, restarted, etc., but to no avail. When this problem has gone away briefly, every action taken in mail gives the spinning ball and takes forever, but sometimes works and I have my mail back. If I shut down my computer and restart it the problem reappears. Anyone else have this problem in Apple Mail?

I am not sure how to link these discussions, so below I am pasting the post that helped me. And here is the link:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15733241#15733241
louse101
Jul 25, 2011 3:17 AM
This is not a problem specific to Lion, but most recent OS X versions. Regularly I receive email formatted as HTML, which includes JPEG images embedded within them. These images are technically attachments, and as such, Mail.app displays them as a placeholder. Other mail apps will display these images inline, regardless of them being an attachment, remote image or otherwise.
How can I make these images load automatically?
MacBook, Unibody, Mac OS X (10.7), 750GB, 7200RPM WD HDD, 4GB RAM
This solved my question by louse101 on Jul 26, 2011 3:47 AM
No-one replied, but I found a solution on another board. Run Terminal (do a Spotlight search if you don't know where to find this), and type:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false
This will force Mail not to disable inline attachment viewing. Obviously, to reverse this, simple replace 'false' at the end with 'true'.
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