Mail keeps asking me keychain until I visit mail provider on safari

Hi, for some reason, when I open mail up it asks me for my "keychain" password, in this case my password I use to login to my hotmail. But, for some reason it will not accept the password untill I open up Safari and actually log into my hotmail.
How can I solve this issue? Thanks.

Woohoo! I got it fixed
Apparently the keychain is often corrupted for many people after upgrading to 10.4 to Leopard.
The fix is (in my case) to run the "keychain first aid". There are step-by-step instructions on the following link (they suggest booting up in Safe Mode first... I did not (thats your call)).
http://1passwd.com/help/607/keychain/usingkeychainaccess
Good Luck,
Jeff.C

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