Mail won't accept bold, italic, etc.

Does anyone know about this?
OSX 10.4.11
Mail.app 2.1.3 (753.1)
Safari.app 3.1.2 (4525.22)
Thanx, vlerk

There is only one account now, my admin.
That is a *very bad* idea; an invitation to trouble. You should never use the Admin account for any actual work; it should only be used for system administration tasks. By do this, you have left a giant security hole in your system; anyone who may come along can access any file on your Mac, as well as destroy anything at will and wreak havoc with your entire system.
You need to create separate User Accounts for each user; if you're the only user under normal circumstances, you can give your user account Admin privileges, which will allow you to do most system administration tasks from the account, but only after you authorize it with the Admin password, which only you should know.
So it is a macbook-problem.
I doubt it. There's no indication of that yet, so it's something on your MacBook that's causing the problem.
I'm a simple graphic designer.
Which is why you should never use Helvetica for anything, and use Futura or Gill Sans instead.
Mulder

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