New message button doesn't work

Hi,
I have rebuild my friends drive with Disk Warrior and now, the Mail software doesn't work well. I cannot create a new message. I tried the "new" button, the "new message" menu in the "File" menu. I even tried to create a new mail by using a link on a web site via Safari. I erased the com.apple.mail preference and the Mail folder in my library. I tried with a new account. Nothing works. The system is a G5 with Tiger 10.4.8.
I think the problem is the framework.
Does anyone have an idea to fix this? Can I reinstall over it? How? With the original disk (10.4.6)?
Thanx in advance!

Hi BlaKCroW.
What does “I tried with a new account” mean? Are you talking about a user account or about a mail account, i.e. have you checked whether the problem is system-wide? Try this:
1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Console.
2. From the File menu, choose either Open Console Log, or Open System Log, or both, so that Console displays the contents of both system.log and console.log.
3. Try to reproduce the problem and look at the bottom of the Console windows for messages that might be written there as a result. They may provide some clues.
In the meanwhile, take a look at the following article, in case this is a font issue:
Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther

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