HELP! *URGENT* something wrong, can't see mail or preferences.....

I launch mail and can see the menu bar (top) but no inbox, outbox, anything.
Same thing with preferences - can see menu but no options.
Have trashed plist of preferences and mail and still does not work. Can't try creating a new user as when I use the pull down for preferences and select accounts, I cannot see anything. I remember seeing this problem once before on here and can't remember the fix.
Help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

I had this problem once.
You know what it turned out to be? I had a second monitor connected and it was off. The preferences and other programs were loading on the other screen. Is this a possibility? Otherwise since you can't create a new user I assume since you're not seeing any other windows, boot into safe mode, then you should be able to create a new account. If you can do that, let me know and we'll take it from there.
Cheers,
Frankii

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