My mail has gone crazy!!!!

several days back I opend my Mac mail to find it was acting like an out of control redheaded stepchild! First off it really goes back to when I upgraded to 10.3 that I started to notice mail acting weird. First off, before I can even open my mail. I must clear all mail on my dotmac inbox, otherwise my other mail will crash as soon as I open it. This has really become a headache too, as I always can't keep the inbox clear before opening mail. My pop account seems to be where bulk of the problem is. For the longest time I was unable to send mail out using my pop account....no big problem, I'd just switch to mail account, and send out my mail. But now I noticed that it will not receive my incoming pop mail. This has been going on for two days now! Prior to that, it was no problem receiving mail for pop account.
None of my setting have changed for pop account, so I'm lost as to what is going on? How can I retrieve my mail?
mahalo,
Roger

I decided to examine mail a bit closer. I went to the mail column in the Apple menu Bar hoping to find an answer to my problem. I have a quest maybe someone could answer for me. Down the mail column I saw this:
online status....."Take POP offline",
TAKE................ **@mac.com offline
then I double clicked on "GET NEW MAIL":, both my POP account & @mac.com account both were "greyed out"? I'm not a computer geek so I'm wondering if these two settings had something to do with my mail problems?

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