STRANGE mail.app problems - Help!

A client's mail is severely screwed. here's a (brief) summary:
OS 10.3.9
Client had mail hang & spin while having 3 replies open. Stuck in a loop, tried numerous Disk Warrior, repairs, permissions, etc etc etc... Client's Mail folder in ~/Library/Mail is huge, over 9GB (many mailboxes).
*Oddest thing: THAT mail folder cannot be copied over to external FW Hard drives (tried 2) hangs after 806mb. Got a strange error about "Incoming mail cannot be read or written" - words to that effect. I've never seen such a thing. I can't even backup that mail folder to simply wipe the drive to update to Tiger.
ANY help appreciated!!
Chotty

Finally I've figured out what happened for not syncing anymore what I did on the Mail.app mailbox of my Professional Exchange account.
So, the problem was the MailTags plugin: http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html
I don't know if it was after the Trial Period that went rogue, or this has happen since the install, but when I've uninstalled it, it worked just fine.
Hope this help someone with the same problem.

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Hi guys.
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I had posted the message below in the ".Mac mail on your desktop" forum but I was referred to this forum.
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I use Mail.app on my PB and iMac at home. During the day, I use .Mac webmail at work. Let's say I send an e-mail at 3:00 PM with webmail. It will sit in my Sent Messages folder with the date the message was sent firmly planted in the header, along with From/To and Subject.
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Hi David, thanks for replying.
I sent a message from .Mac webmail to my Hotmail account, and displayed the full header on the Hotmail side. I've copied the header below. It seems to me that the date sent info is there. If I am misreading the header, please let me know.
Is anyone else seeing this, or could someone with a .Mac account try to test this? Just send yourself a message using webmail, then see if Mail.app can read the date. Thanks so much.
X-Message-Status: n:0
X-SID-PRA: An Moonen <[email protected]>
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Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.181]) by bay0-mc6-f10.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668);
Wed, 23 May 2007 18:16:40 -0700
Received: from webmail043 (webmail043-s [10.13.128.43])
by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/smtpout11/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id l4O1Gdr2027408
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:16:39 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:16:38 -0700
From: An Moonen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: testing
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Originating-IP: 144.142.21.44
Received: from [144.142.21.44] from webmail.mac.com with HTTP; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:16:38 -0700
X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA==
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Return-Path: [email protected]
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