Mac mail all messed up

I have a G4 laptop and a G5 desktop. Both are divided into two users, my wife and myself. Are separate mail accounts work fine on the G5. However, on the G4 they are all screwed up. Both our mail is coming into one mailbox and the mailbox for the other person there is a lightning icon and no mail will load. I figure I can just delete all mail accounts on the G4 and start over to again setup our two accounts. My question is: Is deleting all mail accounts on the G4 going to wipe out all the incoming and outgoing mail already received on the G5? I don't want to lose any of that material. If so, do I need to save the mail on the G5 and if so, what is the easiest way to do this? (By the way, I have checked the mail settings on the G4 and they are identical with the ones on the G5 so I can't figure out why the mail accounts on the G4 are all messed up.)

If possible, could one or both of you take a
screenshot* and upload it somewhere so we could see
it?
In the meantime, I would suggest going to the Safari
menu and selecting Empty Cache... If that doesn't
work, then Reset Safari, which is also under the
Safari menu.
Other than that, the <A
href=""http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=
107657">steps in this article may help out.
* To take a screenshot, press Command-Shift-3 at the
same time. The screenshot will be saved as Picture
(#).png on your Desktop, where # represents some
number.
Thank you sooo much. Resetting Safari worked for me. I will read the article you recommended too.

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