Mail Freezes at Start-up after installing Leopard

I wonder if anyone can help me with this. I just bought the Mac Box Set and just installed Leopard on my 2GHz Intel Core Duo. Everything works well except for Mail. It just freezes after clicking on it. I do not even get the mail viewer window.
I run two accounts from Mail: a DotMac account and a pop account from work. I do not use my server's mail account. Up to now all the updates that I have done have never caused any problems.
Any ideas?

V.K.
Thanks for the reply. I read through those articles and did what was asked but nothing has changed. When I start up Mail, I do not get the viewer window; I have to go to the Window menu to get it. Then when it opens, every mail box is empty. For Mailboxes, I only get an Inbox and a Sent box; all over mailboxes are dimmed.
Very confusing.

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