Mail broken after upgrade to Leopard

After upgrading my G5 from 10.4 to Leopard, everything works fine except Apple Mail is completely broken. All of my folders were transferred, but they are empty and can not be rebuilt. My old folders are intact and located in the User/Library/Mail folder. All of my accounts (2) transferred correctly, but I can not send or receive mail. Most of the menu items are grayed out, and the application will not quit–except by using force quit. Connection Doctor shows all servers as green. I have completely run out of ideas.

Had the same problem. There is an apple support note with another simple solution: TS2537.
Resolution
1) Force quit Mail if necessary: From the Apple menu, choose Force Quit, select Mail in the Force Quit window's list of applications, then click "Force Quit".
2) If the issue persists after relaunching Mail, follow these steps while Mail is not running:
3) From the Finder's Go menu choose Go to Folder. Go to this location (type or paste the following, then click Go): ~/Library/Mail
4) Move the items named "MessageRules.plist" and "MessageRules.plist.backup" to another location, such as your desktop.
5) Open Mail. Note: At this point you can either set your Junk Mail settings and re-create your Mail rules manually in Mail preferences, or follow the next two steps (if you re-create rules and Junk settings, do not perform the following steps).
6 ) Quit Mail.
7) Place the items named "MessageRules.plist" and "MessageRules.plist.backup" back in the ~/Library/Mail folder (replace any copies that were added to ~/Library/Mail when you opened Mail).
Second issue
I had another problem in addition. My mail came back up by using the individual remove commands listed above, but they buttons in my new mail application still reflected the old 2.x layout and not the new mail 3.x layout. Only clearing all the settings by running
defaults remove com.apple.mail
solved the issue for me.
Thanks everyone for their help!!
in a terminal window cleared everything. Now the buttons are in the right spot.

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Mac OS X 10.5, iMac (Late 2007): Stuck in a "loop" at the login window after upgrading to Leopard
Issue or symptom
After installing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on a 20-inch or 24-inch iMac (Late 2007) computer, you may not be able to log in at the login window. Your login name and password are apparently accepted, but after a blue screen appears for a few seconds, the login window reappears instead of your desktop.
Products affected
20-inch or 24-inch iMac (Late 2007) computer with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8 GHz processors
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Solution
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