Preferences in Mail Wont Close

Hi all,
10.4.5, with the latest (3/13/06?) security update; mail w/some 3rd party add ons: SpamSeive, Mail ActOn and MailTags. All was well until the latest security update (at least I think thats when this started).
Now when I open mail preferences, I cannot close the preference pane. I have to quit mail to make it go away. I can bounce back and forth between mail's main window and the preference pane.
Anyone else seeing this?
Thanks in advance,
Michael

That's great if you're using Mail Tags, but I'm not and I'm having the same problem.
As I mentioned, I tried a utility called MailUnreadStatusBar last week. As far as I can tell, it is just a simple app that adds a menu to the menu bar on the right side. It checks periodically to see if any new messages come in and puts a little red badge on its menu icon. I don't think it installs any plug-in into Mail. Here is the developer's page:
http://www.queuesoft.jp/MailUnreadStatusBar-e.html
I have not installed any Mail plug-ins that I know of.

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