Glitch getting Mail to access my .Mac account

Yesterday after I had had my powerbook on for a while, after Mail had opened on startup and automatically checked for and retrieved mail for my .mac account and a second separate account, Mail suddenly began asking me to log on. This was maybe about an hour after I'd started working. I'd been turned away from my screen for a while and when I jiggled my mouse to bring the screen on again (it was not sleeping, but the screen is set to go dark after a few minutes), there was this dialog box asking me to log on. (The second, non-.mac email account is functioning normally.)
I tried doing so but the system would not accept my password (even after trying several versions of that password). So now it's the next day and this problem hasn't solved itself... On a different machine at home last night I checked and Mail and my .mac account was functioning normally.
Here at work again I can log on to .mac and see my mail via Safari--so the problem is not that I've mis-remembered my password. The problem seems to be with Mail on this particular machine, rather than with .mac.
I've looked at Mail's preferences/accounts and everything seems to be set properly. Both email accounts are enabled and all the settings appear to be as they should be. Nothing corrupted-looking that I can see in those details.
But no more dialogs this morning about needing to log on to .mac, and that account in my Inbox is greyed out and there is an alert sign to the right of it--a circle with a squiggle in it (looks like a tilde).
Mail DOES allow mail to be sent via either account. I can use Mail to compose and successfully send test messages by selecting the .mac mail account (from the popup menu) to my second non.mac account, and use Mail to receive/read it. I can send email from this second account to my .mac account and receive the message--but only by logging on to .mac via Safari. Mail won't show it to me (as it had been doing so nicely and unproblematically for so long). As I said, the problem seems to be with Mail on this particular machine, rather than with .mac.
Suggestions?
three G4 pwrbooks and an iBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

But no more dialogs this morning about needing to log on to .mac,
and that account in my Inbox is greyed out and there is an alert sign
to the right of it--a circle with a squiggle in it (looks like a tilde).
This indicates the account has been taken offline which occurs when the account cannot connect to the incoming mail server for whatever reason.
At the Mail.app menu bar, go to Mailbox > Online Status > Take your .Mac named account online.
If this causes the same prompt to manually enter the account's password, decline and quit Mail and then try running Keychain First Aid on your login Keychain via Keychain Access.

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