Mail intermittently won't launch after 10.5.2

So I've run into this problem since updating to 10.5.2 where Mail decides that it won't open. It seems to happen most frequently when I wake my computer up when I get up in the morning and it's been on all night. I'll have an indicator for new mail with the correct number (verified via my iPhone), but when I click on Mail nothing happens. The preferences in the top menu bar change to Mail's, and all of the dropdown menus work, but no window actually comes up (including if I go to New Message or something like that). Force Quitting will quit the program, but when I re-launch it the same thing happens. I have to restart my computer for it to work, which is really annoying. The same thing happens with iCal, but not very frequently.
Anybody know what gives?

The problem is with Spaces. If you have programs (such as Mail or iCal) assigned to open in a specific Space, but then disable Spaces, the program will sometimes still open in said Space even though it doesn't exist. Just go re-enable Spaces, delete your Space-specific application settings, and then disable Spaces again. Simple solution.
I'm willing to bet that everyone who's having this problem is getting it because they put these apps into assigned Spaces to try it out, then didn't like it/preferred to just use Exposé and disabled Spaces without deleting the app assignments. That's what happened to me.

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