Mail won't work since upgrading to Leopard

I just upgraded to Leopard and now Mail doesn't work at all. I click on the icon and it says, "You cannot use the application "Mail" with this version of Mac OS X. Everything else works fine.

you may have more than one Mail.app on your computer, and you may try to launch the Tiger version instead of the Leopard version. Can you search for Mail.app and see if indeed you have more than one, then select Mail.app 3.0, the leopard version and start it up.
Once you have located the correct version, trash the old one.
hope this helps

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