User is unable to retrieve mail, under any circumstances

OK, I'm pretty much tried everything at this point.
I have a user who has had their account open and accessible for years, and they have suddenly had their rights suspended. xServe is the OD Master, and we have had two different OD corruption issues (but they are resolved now). Mail is hosted on an OD Replica (G5 xServe)
SquirrelMail returns the error: "Unknown user or password incorrect." No other mail program will retrieve his e-mail.
User can log into servers, etc. using their OD credentials. SirAdmin, mailbfr, and reconstruct -i have all been run to repair the mail directories, but to no avail. I have set mail forwarding to a new user account (for the time being) so that he can receive all his new mail, but his old mail is AWOL. I have a backup of some of his e-mail, but anything new is still missing
The account was working for years, until we had some OD corruption, and I have a feeling this this account is "frelled". There is a user quota that appears, his mail account does appear in Server Admin, and his user account is still active.
What am I missing? What do I need to do? If this account is gonzo, what can I do to force the mail server to retrieve everything that is in that user account, and have it force-forwarded to a different mail account?
Thanks to everyone in advance for assisting me
Barry

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