My Mail has no Preferences

I'm using Mail 1.3.11 that came with my OS 10.3. Everytime I try to do something simple like add a Signature, Mail Help tells me to go to Mail/Preferences. Mail Help tells me I'm supposed to have tabs for General, Accounts, Junk Mail, Fonts & Colors, Viewing, Composing, Signatures, and Rules. But when I go to my Preferences, I only have a view of Accounts.
I have a screen shot of it, but doesn't look like I can load it, so hope the description makes sense.
Anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong?
ibook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

As a brody suggests, you may do better in the 10.3
Mail forum. However, first open your Mail
preferences, and if there is a little oval button in
the top right corner of the window click it and see
what happens.
AK
Wow. I love asking stupid questions. I'm sure that's why Mail Help didn't have it in their search options. Anyway, thanks for that. Now I have all the pretty tabs...
ibook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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