.mac account in Mail.app won't download mail - it freezes

I just screenshared my mother for about 4 hours (there is about a 20 second lag time between every click i enter and the response on her end, maddening!! but that's another story).
Her AOL IMAP accounts are working fine in Mail.app, but her .mac account is not. It will not download any new mail that is sitting on the server. It shows that non-beachball circle-line progress thing, nonstop.
Weirder still, I went on her screen, composed an email to myself, and sent it. The Mail Activity showed that it was sending at speeds like 5 kbps... for 10 minutes, until I force quitted. However, I got the email in my account seconds after I sent it. So SOMEHOW the outgoing email is working, even though it froze her own Mail.app in a perpetual "Sending" progress circle.
The application will not quit... it must be force quit every time. I tried deleting the .mac account and re-adding it. I deleted the plist. I verified that the connection doctor has all green lights and says it logged into the server successfully. I tried using SSL and not SSL connections. This was an issue in 10.5.2 and persists in 10.5.3. She is on DSL plugged straight into the computer. All other internet functionality seems to be working normally.
WHAT could possibly be making Mail screw up the .mac account, but not an AOL IMAP account?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

I went to settings > mail, contacts, calendars and did not find a notifications setting. But that's not the issue. When I open the mail app and force an update, new email is not downloaded, even though I can see new email on my computer.

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