I can't open mail application.

I just got the internet and am trying to set up my email with the Mail program. I cannot get it to open, in response to this problem, I have tried to reinstall the program. When I am attempting to do this it will not let me choose to install Mail, and when I place my cursor over Mail it tells me that I have a newer version already installed. I do not know how to proceed from here.

A warm welcome to the forums!
We can get past that you already stuff if we need to, but first launch Disk Utility and at leastr Repair Permissions and reboot...
Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later to verify or repair disks...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751

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