Can't receive or send mail: Password rejected

Hi there.
Every time I try and open Mail, I get asked to enter my password for account ".mac account" and told the .mac server "mail.mac.com" has rejected the password for user xxx. I'm asked to re-enter the password. This has happened before when the server is having problems but usually rights itself within a few hours (Re-entering the password never makes any difference.) This time however it's been 5 days, and although I can access my mail at mobileme it's a real pain.
Does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do to get my mail back?
Many thanks

Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.

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