Sending email hangs Mail

I have done my best to scour the discussions for an answer to this problem, but if I have somehow overlooked it, then I will be happy to just follow any links people have.
My problem: About 80% of the time, sending email causes Mail to hang with a permanent beachball. My solution is to force quit and relaunch Mail. At this point, it finishes sending and behaves normally. Although often, recipients will tell me they got my email twice.
Actions taken so far: I have rebuilt all potentiall affected mailoboxes. I have trashed the Outbox entirely. I have trashed my Junk mail filters. I have used utilities to scan for corrupted preferences. Probably other things that I have forgotten at this point.
It's a basic POP/SMTP setup.
Having invested about 30 hours so far in transitioning to Mail from being a long time Eudora user, this dealbreaker is really getting to me. If there is anyone here who can offer some assistance, I would be most grateful.
TIA.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

2. In the Finder, go to HOME/Library/Mail/POP-username@servername/. With
that folder open, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste
it in your reply to this post, to let me see whether there is something amiss
within your account folder.
Deleted Messages.mbox
Drafts.mbox
INBOX.mbox
Junk.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2
Sent Messages.mbox
3. Move Sent Messages.mbox to the Desktop, open it, and repeat the same
procedure to let me see which files and folders are within Sent
Messages.mbox.
Messages
Info.plist
The messages folder itself is empty. I routinely move sent mail to other mailboxes.
4. Open Mail and check whether it works properly now.
Thank you for your persistance.
Because I clean out my sent and drafts folders, I have essentially run this test more than once already. (Quitting Mail. Trashing some mailboxes. Restarting Mail.) Things seem ok for a time, but you have to remember that this problem is intermittant, albeit frequent.

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