Mail will not open after migration

After migrating from a time machine backup the Mail app will no longer open and I get this error message:
Process:         Mail [871]
Path:            /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier:      com.apple.mail
Version:         5.2 (1257)
Build Info:      Mail-1257000000000000~1
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [128]
Date/Time:       2012-02-23 21:00:00.593 -0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50)
Report Version:  9
Sleep/Wake UUID: E1834363-C4F8-41B3-A09E-EFB9AA2D3F1A
Interval Since Last Report:          1787 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           6
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   4
Crashed Thread:  0
Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSObject
  Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeMediaBrowser
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeMediaBrowser
I deleted the everything within the V2 folder inside Mail.  But still got the message.  I have also tried extracting a copy of Mail from a working backup and running it from my desktop but no luck either.

I have tried reinstalling. Next I reinstalled xCode. Then I reinstalled iLife from a DVD. I reinstalled the developer tools. Nothing has helped yet.
The problem is that the variable _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSObject is missing from the /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib file.
I even reinstalled the  /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib file from a backup when the Mail program worked but no luck.
How do we get a  /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib file with the  _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSObject variable?
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