Mail problems: signatures and links

I had a problem with Mail yesterday. Somehow I lost the connection between the app and my server, and I had to redo the configuration. When I finished I had all my own mailboxes, but the InBox was still empty, though I could view the new and old messages on the server. I finally got one of our IT guys to figure out what was wrong and he fine-tuned the configuration and my messages were loaded back to my InBox from the server. I mention all that because I suspect it may somehow have caused the problems I have found today.
Signatures: When I open the signature preferences, I have 3 signatures that appear and I can change most everything, except at the bottom where I should be able to choose which signature I want, the only one listed is None, and it is grayed out. So how can I get it to recognize the 3 signatures in the box above that?
Links: When I get an email that has some links imbedded in it, when I click on any of those links, in any of those such messages, nothing happens. I can sometimes go around that by hovering on the link, copying it down on paper, then typing it into the URL blank, but some of the links are so long that is not a reasonable workaround. I really need such links to work for me. Any suggestions?
All help with both problems will be much appreciated.

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Please correct your system info so that you can get the proper troubleshooting suggestions.
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strangely (it would have the gray wheel around my
main accounts -- from two different servers). I
would have to force quit. At the same time, address
book stopped opening (it would require a force quit
as well) and iCal similarly began to have problems
(it would not accept new events and would also
require a force quit). I upgraded to 10.4.6 and now
Mail (2.08) will not open at all and the other
problems continue. I have verified the permissions.
there is plenty of free space. I am not keen to
reinstall and since the problem occurred without any
other apparent problem, I wonder if anyone has a
solution.
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