Mail app newbie

Just switched to OSX last week, from OS9... I was using the ancient Claris Emailer previously.
Needless to say, I'm a bit frustrated (and stumped) on a few things. I have everything mostly working, but the app seems to be missing a few "features" I wish it had.
Question 1:
I prefer to see the mail list WITHOUT the split screen. Otherwise, merely clicking on an email shows me content I don't wish to even SEE (spam etc).
So I open up a window to view the mails instead...
is there any way FROM the email window I'm viewing to "cycle" to "next email" and "previous email" in the list with a keystroke? I typically dump all the crap, then want to "review/scan" the incoming and determine which needs dealing with first.
I know, I can screw with the split screen every time, but I'd just rather leave it off, forever.
Question 2:
When replying to an email, is there any way you can have the REPLY window automatically come up as a NEW window, instead of just replacing the incoming mail text I'm replying to? I often need to refer repeatedly to the original when forming replies.
(I don't care to quote 5 page emails in full and then edit the crap out of them to the 6 lines that require response)
I see that if I have the split screen open, clicking "reply" brings up the reply in a new window, but it doesn't if I have a separate window open for the incoming mail I'm reading.
Question 3:
I always use plain text. How does one go about verifying an URL I type in an outgoing email before I send it? (Besides copy/paste to the browser). I used to be able to do this in os9 with cmd-click-- is there a keystroke for this or do I need some little add-on shareware?
Thanks for any tips, tricks or ideas anyone can give.

I don't understand why you would need to "verify" a URL in an email you're sending; presumably you already know it's good, otherwise there would be no point in including it.
Actually, I'm a week-old newborn to OSX, and I haven't hardly begun to get my workflow tweaked to where I'm actually useful, so I'm sure I'm missing things.
I do custom work for clients. Often I need to send in-progress images and certainly pictures of the final work to the client. Since sending images with email doesn't always work on the other end, I simply upload pictures or pages to my website and direct them there.
So what I'm typing is either a direct url to a particular image, or page... and not all of these are for public access. I'm trying to master what I used to do in PS 7 in PSCS4, thankfully the text editor I use and fetch both required next to nothing for a relearning curve... but navigating stuff as I once did in the Finder is netherworld all its own.
So far, I'm not sure where there's access to any particular url I can just snag and drag into an email... since I edit things on the local drive and upload via Fetch. I mostly know where the page or image is...so I just manually type it. And then I want to CHECK it. I may mis-type the name, number or miss a directory in the hierarchy on occasion, so it always pays to check.
It's poor form to email a busted url... even worse, if it happens in a newslist post!
Like I said, I'm feeling my way through new workflow processes here. In the past, I had some extension (IceTee I think) that would identify any email and automagically open the the email app and start a new addressed email... and likewise Identify an Url and get the browser and go to the page. All by a simple cmd-click anywhere on the Url (no need to select the whole thing).
Remembering that little extension, I went looking, and found this:
http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/
So now it's called ICeCoffEE...
And it's a beta... but at this point with everything being a "test" all day every day, I'm a willing guinea pig.
It did work in Mail.app, so I solved this question myself
(did not work in this edit window, but I checked the url in preview mode... it's a very old habit!
I know it might not make sense to some people... but when you're putting urls into plaintext messages, or receiving urls in them, cmd-click is easier than *+copy/find browser/paste/enter+*
And yes, I still hand-code *gasp!*
Maybe one day I'll move into the 21st century there as well.
--K

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