Mail boxes gone and Mail has returned to start

I opened Mail today and had problems with log on. It refused to send mail. It then froze. I did a force quit only to find that the entire application has reset to Zero i.e. no mail boxes and it asks me to set up a new account. My entire account and mailboxes has disappeared. This is a one of a series of problems following a major crash last weekend.
I then rebuilt permissions. verified the disk cleared the caches only to ind that all my prferences have been set to default. All applications are opening as if for the first time. e.g. Firefox has lost all bookmarks and my finder is at default - all dock items have disappeared as have a series of widgets. the only widgets that open are the Appe default items.

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If that isn't the problem, go through the troubleshooting steps. It could be the Apple Mobile Device Service issue.
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if itunes will not run, you probably have mangled windows badly
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I used to be able to close the browser and still have the download box open and still download stuff but now I can't...what happened???!!!

I was in the process of downloading something tonight and decided to close my browser. Unfortunately, the download window also closed and that meant my download was gone and I would have to start over again.
I went back and started the download again and the download box showed the file picked up where it left off but when I closed the browser the same thing happened again; the download box closed when I closed the browser.
The reason I close the browser is because my downloads download faster when the browser is closed and now that option is closed to me.
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Hi cor-el:
Thanks for responding to my post.
I went to about:config like you suggest and changed the the thing you said. There is no improvement. Instead of my browser and the download box closing when I click on exit button/link now a box pops up with the message "If you exit now, 1 download will be canceled. Are you sure you want to exit?
I don't need a box to warn me that if I exit that the downloads manager would close as well...I already know that and that's the problem. I want a way to stop the download manager box from closing when I exit the browser like it used to.
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If you haven't gone to the link razmee209 suggested, above, then check it out.
Consider rebooting the router, too.
Try a newer router, if you can.

Manual recording issue has returned after a long absense

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Sorry to hear that. Have you tried the solution provided on this link? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2749480?lcid=1033
If it's still the same, it's best to have your phone checked at the Nokia Care Point. Visit this link to contact your local support: www.nokia.com/support
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This application has failed to start because SapNi.dll was not found

On the advice, good advice, of Melanie and Lars, here is a new thread for my question.
I'm assisting with a migration of SAPDB, on Windows Server 2003, to MaxDB 7.6.xx on Solaris 10 SPARC.
I can connect to my SAP DB 7.3.0.35 using Database Manager 7.4.3.23 as superdba. Now I'm trying to use the dbmcli.
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Hello,
actually, the SUPERDBA user only has ONE valid password. Although he is able to perform admin tasks and to execute SQL statements, there are not two passwords for this user!
So if you are able to connect with that user with dbmcli and not with sqlcli or loadercli, there seems to be something wrong with your system/users. Maybe the user called SUPERDBA on your system is not really the SYSDBA but a 'normal' dbm user.
When you connect with that user with dbmcli, please execute the following commands:
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Hi Melanie, Thanks for the response.
I cannot use dbmcli at the moment. I get the Windows dialog box saying
This application has failed to start because SapNi.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
I am using dmcli on the Windows 2003 Server with my SAP DB 7.3 installed. Here is the version of dbmcli that I'm using.
C:\sapdb\SDB\db\bin>dbmcli -V
OK
version,os,dbroot,logon,code,swap
"7.6.06","WIN32","C:\Program Files\sdb\7606",True,ASCII,2
I'm going to try to do what the error message tells me and uninstall and re-install my DB management applications.
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Rich

Server Utilities           c:/sapdb/programs                             7.7.06.09     32 bit    valid
DB Analyzer                c:/sapdb/programs                             7.6.06.03     32 bit    valid
PCR 7300                   c:/sapdb/programs                             7.3.00.35               valid
PCR 7301                   c:/sapdb/programs                             7.3.01.09               valid
PCR 7104                   c:/sapdb/programs                             7.1.04.43               valid
MaxDB PHP Driver           c:/sapdb/programs                             7.6.06.03     32 bit    valid
PCR 7240                   c:/sapdb/programs                             7.2.04.17               valid
Synchronization Manager    c:/sapdb/programs                             7.6.06.03               valid
Base                       c:/sapdb/programs                             7.7.06.09     32 bit    valid
Redist Python              c:/sapdb/programs                             7.6.06.03     32 bit    valid
JDBC                       c:/sapdb/programs                             7.6.05.06               valid
Messages                   c:/sapdb/programs                             MSG 0.8215              valid
ODBC                       c:/sapdb/programs                             7.6.06.03     32 bit    valid
Database Kernel            c:/program files/sdb/7606                     7.6.06.03     32 bit    valid
Database Kernel            c:/sapdb/programs/databasestudio/utilities    7.7.6.9                 valid
Database Kernel            c:/sapdb/sdb/db                               7.3.00.35     32 bit    valid
Loader                     c:/sapdb/programs                             7.6.06.03     32 bit    valid
SQLDBC                     c:/sapdb/programs                             7.6.06.03     32 bit    valid
PCR 7250                   c:/sapdb/programs                             7.2.05.24               valid
xinstinfo
IndepData           : C:\sapdb\data
IndepPrograms       : C:\sapdb\programs
dbmcli -s dbm_version
OK
VERSION    = 7.7.06
BUILD      = DBMServer 7.7.06   Build 009-123-202-944
OS         = WIN32
INSTROOT   =
LOGON      = True
CODE       = UTF8
SWAP       = full
UNICODE    = YES
INSTANCE   = (unknown)
SYSNAME    = Windows Server 2003 family
MASKING    = YES
REPLYTREATMENT = none,zlib,auto
SDBDBM_IPCLOCATION = C:\sapdb\data\wrk
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Thank you for the tip, Andreas. That is exactly what I did for my iPad, and it works like a charm. Unfortunately, when I try to set up my Gmail accounts in Mountain Lion using Exchange services, I receive the following error after putting in m.google.com in the server address field:
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