Mail Freezes When Opening

Mail freezes when I even open it. I have read for hours the various reports of this problem but none of the solutions or descriptions seems to fit me or help.
The problem began just yesterday, but it would freeze when I would begin deleting messages, even though I could get past the opening. I was able to delete one or two, then it would freeze and I would have to do a force quit. Now, after quitting and opening a half dozen times, it freezes even when I try to open.
I have downloaded the latest Mail updates/software
I have allowed mail to rebuild the Envelope Index file
I have repaired permissions on the HD
I have rebuilt each of the In Box mailboxes
I have rebooted the computer without power attached, waited, attached power and rebooted.
I have seven POP accounts plus the .mac account
I can't figure out what else to do and this just started yesterday after a fairly flawless experience with Mail of late. Please help! I am paralyzed in keeping up with e-mails.

I went to the Apple Store and the Genius Bar expert downloaded a recent "fix" for Mail that is not part of the software upgrades. You can get it by searching Mail for Mail Update downloads. He had to also import my mail boxes and preference list files after installing the update. It mostly seems okay now but I am not sure as I have just begun to use it again and it does not feel as stable as before. Just last night I notice a very strange thing. Any mail from amazon.com that I try to open or delete instantly freezes the program again and I have to force quit. I found one other reference to this on the discussion boards, but no explanation. I was able to manually drag the amazon.com e-mail to the trash and get rid of it but this morning another appeared, and also caused freezing. The amazon.com mail was not my initial problem, though it might have been part of it, since deleting anything would freeze things before, and finally I could not even launch mail without it freezing. That is now fixed, but there are still strange things going on here.

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