Safari, iPhoto & iCal not finding Mail

For some strange reason Safari cannot "see" Mail to "send a link" or "contents" of a web page. I get a message saying that I meed to install Mail first. In iPhoto the button to "email" a picture is generic (grey oblong and not iconic) and now only asks the size I want to send but does not send. I DO have Mail installed and it IS working to the best of my knowledge but somehow neither Safari nor iPhoto can find it. And now I have tried to send a reminder to myself in iCal and THAT does not "see" Mail. Neither does iCal recognise the "Me" in AddressBook when entering an "invitee". AddressBook however will send me an email from the contextual menu dropdown in the email address field??? Wierd, eh? Any ideas? thanks and cheers! sam BTW ALL of the above were working over the past week or so....

ALL of the above were working over the past week or so....
Have you changed any settings or installed any software? Do you remember what you did just prior to your issues?
Do you have the latest versions of Safari, iPhoto and iCal?
Try trashing the com.apple.mail.plist file and restart your computer - ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Do you have the same issues in a new account?
Boot from your install disc & run Repair Disk from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751

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