Mail not working after upgrading to Lion

I have recently upgraded to Lion and my Mail program will not open. I get a message that says that "You can't use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS X. You have Mail 4.5".  I would have thought that Lion would have installed the latest verion of Mail. I have tried reinstalling Lion and I get the same result. What do I do to correct this?

I am pleased to say I was able to resolve the issue. The problem was the Lion installation did not replace the Shortcuts on the desktop. These shortcuts were linked to the older Mail program. The same was the case with my Address book.  I deleted the shortcuts on the desktop and then created shortcuts to the updated programs that were in the Applications folder. Now they all work.

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