Mail wont open or load messages!!

Hi, I am having the following problem with Mail.. When I open Mail from either the Dock or Finder nothing opens. Mail appears in the menu bar and the only way of viewing its normal screen is to go:
Window > Message Viewer
When it comes up no emails show or load and I simply get 'Loading' with the loading wheel when I select a specific email.
I think this came around the same time that I updated to 10.5.7, but I am not sure if the two are related. If so, I updated via 'Software Update'.
Any help would be much appreciated, as I am not a fan of Thunderbird!

Hi,
Please note that this upgrade related problem would very likely be what has been covered by the support document at the link below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2537
If you also find any files named to include MessageSorting (which would mean you once have upgraded from a version of OSX earlier than 10.4, (which is clearly the case for you), remove those, also, but never restore those.
Often this is all that needs to be done, but you might then need to force an overall reindexing via the removal of the Envelope Index. Note the special instructions when forcing the reindexing of IMAP or Exchange accounts in the following:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/14019.html
This will force the reindexing of all the POP mailboxes and all On My Mac mailboxes. With regard to any IMAP accounts if you have any, the practical result of this action of removing the account folder, is that with the IMAP account still set up in the Preferences, Mail will connect to the IMAP server and create a new account folder, and while doing so will index the messages in the mailbox folders of the IMAP accounts on the server.
Keep me posted.
Ernie

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