Mail - Preferences not working

I'm running Mail 1.3.11
When I click on the preferences all I get is a window with "Signatures" in the title bar. I've tried the obvious of clicking the top right-hand pill-shaped button which expands the window, but I don't get the usual tabs of different options, but only one tab "Signatures". Does any one know what's happened to the rest of my preferences? I've tried re-installing OS but that didn't help.
Does anyone have any ideas, or know a way of installing a fresh version of Mail?
Thanks for your help, folks.

Thanks Ernie. I've tried clicking the pill-shaped button but the problem is the toolbar only contains "Signatures" and nothing else. I don't know whats happened to the other options. Any ideas?
I'm using MS Entourage at the moment, but it's so clumsy and slow I'd like to go back to mail - I wonder if I could have done something when exporting to Entourage that messed up Mail? Thanks for your help.

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