Mail freezes when oping preferences

I went to open my Mail preferences and my mail froze and had to be restarted. I ran disc utility and dumped a lot of fonts.
After restart it did the same thing. I also rebuilt the mailboxes.
It still freezes when opening the preferences.<<br>
PowerMac G4   Mac OS X (10.4.1)  

Are you really running Mac OS X 10.4.1, as your profile indicates? Is there a reason you haven’t updated your system since then? If that’s not what you’re running, then please update the Operating System field on your My Settings’s profile (and click Save), so that it accurately reflects the version of Mac OS X you’re running now. This is essential information that should always be provided when asking for help.
What does “I ran disc utility” mean? Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you can copy it here and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>:
plutil ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
What does it say?
Look for additional information that may be available in the form of error messages written to the Console:
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. Reproduce the problem and look at the bottom of the Console windows for messages that might be written there as a result.
Do you have any Mail plug-ins? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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