Mail acting very strangely after Leopard upgrade

I upgraded my system from Tiger to Leopard this weekend; it mostly went very smoothly but Mail is fighting me every step of the way.
I did an "erase and install" because I was intending to reinstall everything from scratch, but when I realized how much time that was going to take I used the Migration Assistant to restore everything from my backup drive instead.
I have three email accounts; two .Mac/MobileMe and one IMAP for work. During the process of doing the upgrade I edited the accounts to change mac.com to me.com, and installed the MobileMe software update.
The problems I'm having:
1. The aggregator mailboxes Inbox, Drafts and Sent aren't working. I can click on each of the individual inboxes and see the messages therein, but if I select Inbox I get a blank message list, and the window title usually does not update. Occasionally it starts working for a bit but it always stops again.
2. Mail is always slow to quit, and if I've had it running for a while it refuses to quit at all (or perhaps it wants to take more time than I can stand to wait) so I've had to Force Quit it frequently.
3. If I start Mail up and send a message right away, it gets sent right then. But at some point, and we're only talking about minutes here, it will take the message but not send it. There's no Outbox showing and the message does show up in the Sent folder; there's no cue that the message has not gone out until you start up Mail the next time and see it being sent.
I should note that the problem is almost certainly with my use of the Migration Assistant, because my laptop was upgraded to Leopard without migrating anything (other than syncing with .Mac) and Mail works perfectly there.
What I've tried to fix this (none of them made any difference whatsoever):
1. removed the Mail Preferences plist (com.apple.mail.plist) and recreated the accounts
2. emptied ~/Library/Caches/Mail
3. deactivated SpamSieve
4. edited the MobileMe accounts back to using mac.com
5. looked for relevant errors in the system/console logs (found nothing)
The only thing I haven't tried is backing out the MobileMe software update, because I don't know how to do that.
I've compared com.apple.mail.plist on this system to the one on my laptop, and although they are quite a bit different (this one has more options) there's nothing obviously bogus or broken about any of the data therein.
I am completely stumped. Any suggestions on what else to do to fix this? I've done quite a bit of Googling but I can't even find anyone else reporting the same set of problems...

Download and use Carbon Copy Cloner. Have it clone the drive and then restart from the clone ... before you do anything to lose your stuff. Then, you can proceed to either archive and install or erase and install.
Some folks prefer CCC to SuperDuper, some prefer SuperDuper. I have used both. CCC is Leopard compatible.
SuperDuper and CCC would have given you clones as backups before you 'upgraded' to Leopard. Backups are doubly important these days regardless of time machine.
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Download and use Carbon Copy Cloner. Have it clone the drive and then restart from the clone ... before you do anything to lose your stuff. Then, you can proceed to either archive and install or erase and install.
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Hi everyone
I originally added my comments to another thread, but that person's problem has been solved, while mine has not, so I had better post separately.
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