To Do's Greyed out in mail?

When I first installed leopard the to do's worked just fine. I haven't used them for awhile and just today opened a few messages that I wanted to create a to do from and the to do button is greyed out. I haven't changed anything and have tried to close out mail and restart but nothing is working, any help?

when you select and open an email, you need to select text within the email to be able to create a to do.
hope this helps

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