Mail & Keychain dysfunction

My machine has two accounts: My own, as administrator, and my wife's as a standard account. We each have our own mailboxes with the same ISP account.
Mail works properly when I am logged in, but on my wife's account Mail always begins by asking for account information as though Mail had never been used before.
Keychain has a similar problem. Keychain cannot provide a password to the Mail application. When she opens keychain, it says it cannot find a keychain data file and asks to create one, even though their are two previous keychains in the Library/keychains folder created from previous attempts. The File/Add keychain operation does not see the previous keychains. After creating yet another keychain, the Password and Note icons remained dimmed and unresponsive.
Perhaps these two symptoms are related(?) because they appeared at about the same time when attempting to restore a disk. This included following operations:
Erase disc
Install OS X 20.2 and bundled software.
Run Software update >> updated to 10.2.8
retrieve user files and folders from powerbook. This was not strictly a backup, but just retrieval of redundant files that were also stored on the powerbook. I had to jiggle permissions several times.
Repaired permissions.
Attempted and failed to get Mail and Keychain running.
Repaired permissions again, but same result.
How do I get keychain and mail operating properly again on my wife's account?
iMac Mac OS X (10.2.x)
iMac Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Problem no longer exists. I think I worked through it.

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