"Send" Greyed Out in Mail 3.6 and Entourage 12

The Mail 3.6 application on two different computers refuses to send anything out--when you hit Reply, the message bow has the Send button greyed out. If you save the message, choose it in Drafts and then choose Send Again from the Message menu, it open the message box--with a greyed out Send button. If you look in the Sent folder, the message is not there. The same problem is now occuring with Entourage 12. I am running OS X 10.5.8 on an iBook G4 and a Power Mac G4, both fully updated, with Permissions repaired etc. I tried reinstalling Mail 3.6 with Pacifist and the same problem occurred immediately. I find Mail to be a terrible program in general but this seemsw to be the fault of something larger.

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