I can't get Mail.app to open.

After I installed 10.6.8 the old mail icon from OSX 10.6.3 was still on the desktop so I trashed it. When I moved the new mail.app from the harddrive to the desktop, it wouldn't open. But the harddrive still had the mail icon in the application folder. So it looked like I might be trying to open two copies of the mail app at the same time? Anyway,after trying to move and trash extra copies of the mail.app, and twice reinstalling MacOSXUpdCombo 10.6.8 I now have just one icon of Mail.app on my desktop that still refuses to open. HELP! Please!
I'm using an iMac from 2008 or so using an Intel core2duo processor running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, 20" display. Model 8,1

This  didn't work, alas. I moved the desktop icon to the trash as suggested. When I tried to start Mail from the dock it gave me an error message saying it couldn't start up because the app was in the trash

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