Strange behavior in Tiger Mail - Sending Messages but they don't go through

Hi everyone. I have a perplexing issue that is causing angst in my household. My wife uses a G4 iMac with Tiger 10.4.11. She has a .mac account for email using Apple's "Mail". Up until a few weeks ago, she had no problems with e-mail....coming or going. I made a move to a DSL modem and new ISP provider, and she could not send e-mail anymore. She still receives, but the outgoing messages go only to the outbox. We got her a work-around using the web-based .Mac, but that is not how it is supposed to work. (Our two daughters use their .mac accounts on the same machine, but have no problems sending or receiving.)
I switched back to the cable modem this weekend, and we still experience the same problem. My wife's account does not send, but the kids' accounts still have no problem. I have experimented with the account settings, and it doesn't work for hers, even using the same settings as for the other users. I deleted the account and set it up again, but nothing seems to help. Using the connection doctor, it shows the connections are okay.
This is using port 25 with no SSL, using port 587 with SSL...always the same result. It has even stopped giving error messages. It just goes to the outbox and sits there.
Any suggestions?
Mitch

They use the same ISP and settings. I have tried re-setting up her account, and also using the ISP (Time Warner RoadRunner) to try and force them through. The kids' accounts just go through smtp.mac.com for outgoing mail, but neither works for the wife's account.
Needless to say, I need to fix the wife's account!

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