Mail and iChat don't respond when computer wakes up

Hi everybody,
When I first boot up my computer, mail.app and iChat both work fine, but when I put it to sleep, and then wake it up, neither application responds. I just get the little spinning rainbow. When I force quit, and reopen, I have the same problem. When I reboot, they're both fine again.
I've tried deleting the preference files for both applications, with no luck.
Thanks

OK Jeremy, this may help or may not, but it will do no harm.
Power down both DSL and Airport, and your Mac (or at least log out).
Wait about one minute, power up DSL, let it pass some configuration routine (may take another minute or so), power up Airport, wait another minute and fire up the old Mac.
Open chat and mail, put it to sleep and wake it up again.
Did this improve things?

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