Can't address new mail

When I got my laptop I gave my wife my e-mac, with OS 10.3.9.. Since she only wanted it for e-mail I removed most 3rd party applications , kept Firefox , Weather Dock, MacJanitor, Adobe Reader, Neooffice, Explorer, Real One Player and Printmaster.
It’s acting funny, cannot create new e-mails, cannot in fact send e-mails except as a reply to an incoming e-mail.
When creating a new e-mail message, or forwarding an e-mail, putting in the recipient's address causes the spinning beach ball to appear, sometimes as soon as you begin to type the address, and sometimes later in the typing or after the address is complete.
This also happens if you try to first enter either a cc: or a bcc.
Can enter text in Subject, or in body of message without ball appearing.
Can only send a message by clicking " Reply " on incoming message.
Also get requent beach balls in Safari, requiring Force Quit.
Restarting or starting requires disconnecting firewire cable which goes to an Airport Extreme ,which is connected to the modem, although this computer is not wireless , then restarting or starting, re-connecting cable to modem after start. If this is not done no internet connection is made.
I run MacJanitor, Repair Permisssions and Indexing monthly.
Any clues ?

As I said, Google is your best bet. Here's some of the promising links from the first page of search results, including a few from the Discussions:
http://www.boingboing.net/2003/08/13/speed-up-os-xs-maila.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1548305
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8100653
http://macosx.com/tech-support/mac/corrupt-address-book/13741.html
Some may duplicate the others, but there is a fair number of ideas in there.

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