Sudden corruption of Mail 2.1.1

I have been using Entourage 11.2.5 as my email app. I decided to try the Mac Mail because Entourage is slow. I configured my accounts and was adding some finishing touches (no external apps) in preferences when the application basically stopped functioning. I force quit, tried restarting the machine, zapped the PRAM - nothing seems to correct the problem. There are three major issues I know about:
1. I can not open the viewer window.
2. Once I open Mail, I have to force quit.
3. When I open the message viewer, I get a blank window that won't close.
I did not import anything from Entourage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
G4 15-inch Laptop Mac OS X (10.4.8) Intel processor
G4 15-inch Laptop Mac OS X (10.4.3)
G4 15-inch Laptop Mac OS X (10.4.8)
G4 15-inch Laptop Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all filesystem issues, if any, proceed as follows:
1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Console.
2. From the File menu, choose either Open Console Log, or Open System Log, or both, so that Console displays the contents of both system.log and console.log.
3. In the Finder, go to /Applications/, and try to open Mail by double-clicking on it. Look at the bottom of the Console windows for messages that might be written there as a result. They may provide some clues.
In the meanwhile, take a look at the following article, in case this is a font issue:
Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther
You may also want to read this:
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