Restoring Mail from Time Machine

Mail on my MacBook Air hung last night (I did a reply/send and then went to bed) and when I returned this morning, it was still sending. I tried a normal quit but it wouldn't quit. After waiting a while (something like 30 min) and it was still displaying the spinning ball, I decided to do a force quit (it didn't display the "not responding" so decided wait another 30 min)...finally did a force quit (and generated the report for Apple). I then did a permissions repair (just incase) and restarted the computer. When I attempted to open Mail, the icon in Dock indicates that it is open but no windows open. I did this repeatedly but to no avail.
I then opened Time Machine and backup are all there so I canceled TM and did an Option>Go>Library and opened Time Machine again. Only this time, TM displays "Now" but won't let me go back in time to a date when Mail was working.
Am I doing this correctly? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks Eric. When I click on Mail in the Dock, it indicates that it is open (little pointer underneath) but Mail does not appear in the Menu bar above. Here a couple of Grab screen shots. The first one is a pop up when I click Mail in the Dock.
The second is what I see when I do a force quit (indicating that Mail is not responding)

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    August 26th, 2008 at 11:23 amRaffy,This tip is worth it’s weight in gold! Thanks so much for posting such a well though out recipe for a Mail Rescue operation.Just put Jon’s advice on the article, that is also very valuable!Take care,Joseph Hurtado
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                        12  AppKit                              0x00007fff895c32a5 postNotificationAndNotifyDelegate + 227
                        13  AppKit                              0x00007fff895bf9fe -[NSToolbar _notifyDelegate_WillAddItem:atIndex:] + 217
                        14  AppKit                              0x00007fff895bf880 -[NSToolbar _insertItem:atIndex:notifyDelegate:notifyView:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:] + 100
                        15  AppKit                              0x00007fff895bf5d0 -[NSToolbar _insertNewItemWithItemIdentifier:atIndex:propertyListRepresentation:notifyFlags :] + 118
                        16  AppKit                              0x00007fff8998493a -[NSToolbar _setCurrentItemsToItemIdentifiers:itemIndexToPlistDictionary:notifyDelegate:not ifyView:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:] + 350
                        17  AppKit                              0x00007fff895be799 -[NSToolbar _setConfigurationFromDictionary:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:upgradedConfigura tion:] + 431
                        18  Mail                                0x00000001074bf01c Mail + 2248732
                        19  Mail                                0x00000001074be94b Mail + 2246987
                        20  Mail                                0x00000001074b2b9e Mail + 2198430
                        21  Mail                                0x00000001074f696b Mail + 2476395
                        22  Mail                                0x00000001074f6ef8 Mail + 2477816
                        23  Mail                                0x0000000107463301 Mail + 1872641
                        24  Mail                                0x0000000107464324 Mail + 1876772
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                        26  AE                                  0x00007fff8e783c25 _Z20aeDispatchAppleEventPK6AEDescPS_jPh + 200
                        27  AE                                  0x00007fff8e783b03 _ZL25dispatchEventAndSendReplyPK6AEDescPS_ + 38
                        28  AE                                  0x00007fff8e7839f7 aeProcessAppleEvent + 250
                        29  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff86c20b6d AEProcessAppleEvent + 102
                        30  AppKit                              0x00007fff8933963d _DPSNextEvent + 1247
                        31  AppKit                              0x00007fff89338cf5 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
                        32  AppKit                              0x00007fff8933562d -[NSApplication run] + 470
                        33  AppKit                              0x00007fff895b480c NSApplicationMain + 867
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    Am 29.09.2014 um 23:28 schrieb John Waller <[email protected]>:
    Error 150:30 after restoring CS4 from Time Machine backup
    created by John Waller in Adobe Creative Cloud - View the full discussion
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    Restoring from Time Machine backups invariably breaks the activation mechanism (Error 150:30) and there's no easy way to fix a 150:30 error other than via re-installing.
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