Mail won't open and it won't let my computer shut down

mail won't open, the little light by the icon in the dock won't go away, it won't quit, and it won't let my mac shut down even if i let the battery die, it just goes to sleep until you plug it in. Someone please help me!!

Launch Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities folder), find the Mail process, and force quit it from there. If this is NOT an admin-privileged account, then log out, log back in to an admin-privileged account, run Disk Utility Verify Disk. IF problems are reported, reboot from installer DVD and run Disk Utility Repair Disk from the installer DVD. Launch it from Utilities menubar item once the menubar is visible. If you are now running booted off the installer DVD, when repair disk is complete reboot normally and log back in to admin account and download 10.6.2 combo update from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959 and reapply it. Then run software update from the  menubar item. Let us know if that works or not.

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Hi Ken
I wish the 7.1 updater download had helped but it didn¹t. All the files
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Mac 10.5.8
We used Disc Warrior to defrag the hard drive, which did not make a
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basis, initially had the Firefox icon.
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GHz, 4 GB
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Does not mean a thing to me.
I am not late with updating the site, which is about New Zealand culture,
month by month (www.englishteacher.co.nz). Probably only the third time I
have been late since 2005. Not a huge amount of traffic, ~300 a month and
free access to content but I would like to solve this problem.
Could a reciprocal link have caused a problem?
At my wits end.
I really appreciate the help though.
Cheers Yvonne
From: Ken Binney <[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:42:11 -0700
To: Yvonne and Bill Hynson <[email protected]>
Subject: HELP! Files won't open and previously had Firefox
icon instead of DW icons! Leap Year thing?
Re: HELP! Files won't open and previously had Firefox icon instead of DW
icons! Leap Year thing?
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Not necessarily related, but did you also install the 7.1
updater? http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/downloads_updaters.html
Windows or MAC?
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My mail won't open but it won't close on my finder bar...won't let me shut down my Mac.

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