Preferences Pane will not close

Recently, whenever I open the Mail prefs pane to modify a Rule, or perform some other prefs related task, the pane will no longer close when I click the close control. Mail needs to be Quit to close the pane (and therefore Mail, which is a PITA).
I have a couple of plugins installed (Mail ActOn, MailTags and PGP), but prior to the most recent Security Update 2006-002, they were there and the pane worked fine.
Mail shows as version Version 2.0.7 (746.2/746.3).
Any ideas?
Powerbook 15" Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Try to disable the plugins, and see if the prefs pane works fine after that. If yes, then it is one of the plugins that is causing the problems.
You can also try to fix permissions by using DiskUtility.

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