Lion has messed up Mail

After downloading Lion Mail gives an error message saying I need to reinstall Mail. I did and it did not correct the problem.

Make sure you don't have more than one copy of an app named Mail in the Applications folder.  The correct one should be version 5 -- do you have that?
Ernie

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