Notes in Mail not saving, new notes can't be created

Ok, so for awhile I was using the Notes feature in Mail (10.5; all fully updated) to get off of Stickies which are apparently bad (and non-Syncable)... All was well until I realized that changes to Notes weren't being saved and when I create a new Note, hit Done, it doesn't save. I'm trying to save these to my .Mac account, so it should be a space or perms issue.
Thoughts?

I click the Note button, nothing happens. The feature is completely out of service. I don't understand. Am I missing something obvious? I have tried the keystrokes too, no reaction at all, no errors, just can't use Notes, at all! rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Please help.
Update: I opened Console to see if I could find any errors immediate after trying to create a note and this is what I found:
6/26/08 10:28:31 PM Mail[236] * Assertion failure in +[NoteView updateFontAndRule:], /SourceCache/Mail/Mail-924/MessageViewer.subproj/NoteView.m:149
6/26/08 10:28:31 PM Mail[236] * WebKit discarded an uncaught exception in the webView:didFinishLoadForFrame: delegate: <NSInternalInconsistencyException> font-family cannot be nil
6/26/08 10:28:42 PM Mail[236] * Assertion failure in +[NoteView updateFontAndRule:], /SourceCache/Mail/Mail-924/MessageViewer.subproj/NoteView.m:149
6/26/08 10:28:42 PM Mail[236] * WebKit discarded an uncaught exception in the webView:didFinishLoadForFrame: delegate: <NSInternalInconsistencyException> font-family cannot be nil
6/26/08 10:28:42 PM Mail[236] * Assertion failure in +[NoteView updateFontAndRule:], /SourceCache/Mail/Mail-924/MessageViewer.subproj/NoteView.m:149
6/26/08 10:28:42 PM Mail[236] * WebKit discarded an uncaught exception in the webView:didFinishLoadForFrame: delegate: <NSInternalInconsistencyException> font-family cannot be nil
6/26/08 10:29:06 PM Mail[236] * Assertion failure in +[NoteView updateFontAndRule:], /SourceCache/Mail/Mail-924/MessageViewer.subproj/NoteView.m:149
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