Mail doesn't show windows on bootup, doesn't quit

Something happened to my Mail (10.3.9). I tried quitting, it didn't, then force-quit it and Restarted Mac. Booted up Mail again, no main window, tried checking incoming mail, still no main window, tried quitting again, still won't quit. Other windows like composing new message or download status will appear when asked. All very strange. Can anyone help? Thanks. Pied indeed.
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.8 GHz

Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all filesystem issues, if any, proceed as follows:
1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Console.
2. From the File menu, choose either Open Console Log, or Open System Log, or both, so that Console displays the contents of both system.log and console.log.
3. Open Mail and look at the bottom of the Console windows for messages that might be written there as a result. They may provide some clues.

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I read another tread about the topic and followed some instructions as to rebuilt each of my mailboxes, including all the Trash and Send and Junk folders of all my accounts.
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I located the bundle files and deleted the folder with the httpMail plug-in functions in it. I quit mail, it would not quit, I forced quit it.
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