Mail Program Will Not Quit Properly

have a brand new iMac 20" and a new .Mac account. My son has an older PowerBook G4 and a separate .Mac account of his own. We both experience the same problem on our Macs...
Sometimes when we use Mail to check our .Mac e-mail after we are done using the program we go to quit the program. Sometimes, not all the time, the program window closes (it disappears from the screen) but the little triangle still stays under the Mail icon and the word Mail stays in bold in the top left-hand corner indicating that the program is still open. It will stay that way for hours if we let it.
The only way we know to get rid of this is to force quit Mail but we are assuming that is the wrong way and/or does damage. My son's PowerBook is somewhat older, but has barely any e-mails in his account. My iMac is brand new (as is my .Mac account) and has very few e-mails as well.
What seems to be causing this and how can we fix it? I am unable to shut down my Mac until I force quit Mail... otherwise when I go to shutdown nothing happens.
Thank you.

See the topic linked below, and those further referenced within it. I think you are having the same problem -- let me know what you think.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1676522&#1676522
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