Can't open mail after installing update with 10.6.8 says my mail is out of date

Please help - new to Macs and I installed automatic update of 10.6.8 - 4 days ago and now I can't open up mail  - it says "You can't use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS X. You tried to open Mail version 4.5 (1084/1085) in Applications/ Mail.
So I went to  Applications, says this message again. So I   used my discs that  came with the computer adn installed again  Applications - no luck.
I had luckily  backed up 2 days before this update - so went to Time Machine - did restore - now good still - can't  open mail. CLick on Iconand get same messgae .
Please help. Thank you

rainbowmum wrote:
Thank you for the very clear basic instructions—helpful for a newbie.…Also my first screen shot !! I see that it does not have .App next to it
Most likely because you have Finder's preferences->Advanced->Show all filename extensions unchecked. Check it, log out, and back in and all the apps should display the .app extension.
Now, back to your problem. If you installed the Security Update 2012-004, it failed to update Mail to 4.6; thus, your problem. Manually DL it from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1586 and reinstall it.

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