Mail program freezing on me

I am unable to use my mail program. Whenever I access the software it freeze on me and I have to force quit. I tried reparing the disk both using the install apple disk and applejack. Still no luck. Any bright ideas out there?
Thanks
Luc

I am having the same problem with mail since yesterday and have spent much of yesterday and today sorting through forums to find this thread.
I, too, found that creating a new user eliminated the mail program freeze. The freeze comes and goes, perhaps lasting 30 seconds with a rhythmic hard drive sound. Force quitting mail immediately stops the rhythmic drive sound, but the freeze means you may have to wait 30-120 seconds to even get the force quit command to be able to be entered.
I had already tried removing com.apple.mail.plist without help
I did this because yesterday I had new freezing problems with Safari. Removing safari's com.apple.safari.plist eliminated the problem, but an hour later the problem had migrated to mail, and this migration really worries me.
I downloaded and ran Preferential Treatment this afternoon and it says all my preferences are OK.
I wanted to run disk utility off the DVD to check the drive (checked OK at the Apple Store a few weeks ago...problem then was a corrupted user, they did an archive and install as the computer wouldn't boot for me). Worked fine the last two weeks.
I have tried today to boot from my Tiger DVD while holding down C. It doesn't work. Also, if I just stick it in, it kicks it out. I checked the Apple help files for this. It recommended downloading superdriveFWUpdate since my PM G5 is an early model. Did this and when run it said I didn't need this. The only other advice that the site points to for problems booting from the DVD refers to 10.3.9 and before, and I'm running 10.4.9.
Do you have any other advice on how I am going to get my PM G5 to boot from the DVD to check the disk before going forward? Again, the folks at Apple Store Saddlecreek said the problem didn't appear to be disk related before, and was a bad user. unfortunately, the archive and install caused hours of work trying to set up syncing between my palm, .mac calendars on the G5, and iMac.
I started follwing the advice you'd given to Luc, to make a backup of ~/Library/Mail and the first time I did this I got a message "finder couldn't complete the operation because some data in "envelope index"couldn't be written" I took that doc and put it on the desktop, and tried again. This time I got the same message for "13052.emit"
What is your advice at this point?
Should I trash all the files in my ~library/mail folder or just some?
There's a file called LSMMap2 and one below it called LSMMap2.corrupt, in fact.
I have two email accounts, one of which has 60,000 plus emails for a newsgroup that I like to be able to go back into to do searches on previously discussed questions, but I do now have them on the other user account I set up on the computer today.
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