Mail hangs at copying message to outbox

I seem to be getting mail, but all message sent today are not showing up in the Sent box, and I have muliple items in the activity viewer saysing the it is copying to the Outbox. This has been going on through two forece quits and one total restart. It has been going this way for over two hours now. Help. Mail version 2.07 on my Dual 2G G5. I also tried to rebuild mail boxes and it doesn't seem to respond.
D2G5 G4, PB800G4 MBPRO Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Was trying to forward an email with a pdf seemed to be the problem. No matter how many times I tried it, it just kept corrupting the outbox. Finally cut and pasted the message, and sent the pdf in a separate email and it worked. Never had that happen before and I deal with big files and PDFs everyday.

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You’re welcome.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
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1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any “IMAP-”, “Mac-”, or “Exchange-” account folders to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all the mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
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1)
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1 Message 0x00007fff8269107e -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 220
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5 Message 0x00007fff8269f347 -[MonitoredOperation main] + 229
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7 Foundation 0x00007fff88003d23 ___startOperations_block_invoke2 + 99
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87cb0ce8 dispatch_call_block_andrelease + 15
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10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87c8ebb8 pthreadwqthread + 353
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87c8ea55 start_wqthread + 13
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Thread 14 Crashed:
0 <<00000000>> 0xfffeff18 objcmsgSendrtp + 24
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x9293d968 NSPopAutoreleasePool + 536
2 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x99f6deb4 -[InvocationQueue _drainQueue] + 468
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x92961194 forkThreadForFunction + 108
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b508 pthreadbody + 96
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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90071168 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 556
2 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x94d2bcac -[ABRemoteImageLoader workLoop] + 132
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x92961194 forkThreadForFunction + 108
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b508 pthreadbody + 96
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0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90054ae8 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90054944 pthreadcondtimedwait + 676
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x929e05a0 FCONDITION_WAITTIMEOUT + 144
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x929e04bc -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:beforeDate:] + 128
4 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x99f6dd90 -[InvocationQueue _drainQueue] + 176
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x92961194 forkThreadForFunction + 108
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b508 pthreadbody + 96
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srr0: 0x00000000fffeff18 srr1: 0x100000000000f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x44000224 xer: 0x0000000000000000 lr: 0x000000009293d968 ctr: 0x000000009012b258
r0: 0x0000000000000001 r1: 0x00000000f078e920 r2: 0x000000000072f7b4 r3: 0x0000000016e12d20
r4: 0x0000000090aa8904 r5: 0x00000000000003e8 r6: 0xffffffffffffffff r7: 0x0000000000746000
r8: 0x0000000000000001 r9: 0x000000000072f000 r10: 0x000000000000000c r11: 0x000000006f548904
r12: 0x000000004d61696c r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x0000000000000000 r22: 0x0000000000000000 r23: 0x0000000000000000
r24: 0x0000000000000000 r25: 0x0000000000000000 r26: 0x00000000a9f6dce0 r27: 0x0000000000000000
r28: 0x00000000183a0180 r29: 0x0000000016e12d20 r30: 0x0000000016e07100 r31: 0x000000009293d764

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