Problems upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion

First of all, I greet you all. First time poster from Mexico.
I´m having problems with certain applications since I updated from Lion to Mountain Lion. The transition has been filled with issues, specially with aspects related to the incorporation of Twitter and Facebook to the OS. This will be a long post, and I apollogize in advance for my english, it´s not my native language.
I have a MacBook Pro 15" mid 2010, It came with Snow Leopard if my memory serves. It was fast and very reliable. Since I upgraded to Lion, I felt the OS was slower, it took time to power on and shut off. But overall, it was still stable, never doing anything unexpected, nor apps crashing or freezing.
Yesterday I decided to upgrade to Mountain Lion. The installation was uneventful, everything seemed ok, if slow. Then, I opened Mail. It gor stuck in a dialog box saying the email library was being updated. It lingered for more than three hours. I let it overnight. Next day the screen was in standby so I moved the cursos, it went back for a second, then went black again. I tried several times to wake her, same thing. I shut it off with the power button.
Upon opening Mail again, it went straight to the dialog box with the progress line stuck in the same place where it had been the night before, and it lingered for as long as I let it. I searched in this forum, and I came across a post that had a workaround (didn´t save the link. Sorry), which was entering Library>Mail>V2>MailData, and erase the first three files that started with the word envelope. This enabled Mail to finally update the email library and open the app itself, but after a couple of seconds of indexing the emails I previously had in Lion, it crashed again. This is where I´m currently at. If I open the app, it shows for a couple of seconds, sorts some emails, and crashes.
Another problem I have, is in System Preferences. If I try to open the Email, Calendar and Contacts tab, it shows the login stage for social services, but crashes righ away. Everything else in System Preferences will work, but that tab crashes righ away.
The Messages tab opens, but if I enter my AppleID, it crashes.
So, in short, a lot of what makes Mountain Lion different to Lion, crashes for me. I´ve run the disk utility to fix premissions several times. I´ve run the Maintenance, OnyX and Deeper apps and everything stays the same.
I installed a couple of supplementary upgrades to Mountain Lion from the Apple support web site, but it hasn´t corrected anything. I have searched for the answer on several forums, but haven´t had any luck. I tried to reinstall, same issues reappear. I´m reluctant to just backup everything and nuke the system, since: 1)I don´t have enough space on my external HD to backup everything I want and 2)I´m not that skilled on computers so I know I´ll eventually miss something, like my favorites from Safari or something like that.
I can access the crash reports if it´s useful to any of you. I thank in advance everyone who might try to assist me with this.

HI,
The issues would seem to be centralised on the System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars items.
When this item is functioning then you can turn On and Off the "Accounts" for the Mail App and the Messages app in this pane.
Example pic
This Mail, Contacts and Calendars Preferences Pane will be calling on saved data in a file ending in .plist
.plist files are held in ~/Library/Preferences
In Lion and Mountain Lion you have to access this in the Finder > Go Menu > Go to Folder and typing the path in to the dialogue box.
Find and drag to the Trash (to delete) com.apple.CalendarAgent.plist and com.apple.AddressBook.plist
These two items seem to be updated when you change a setting in the Mail, Contacts an Calendars pane.
Another thing to check in the Contacts app > My Card
This used to be called the Address Book.
There can be issues with some apps if the My Card (Head and Shoulders icon) is not your own Card.
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