Vanishing message lists, stalls, and a whole mess of trouble!

Out of all my apps, MAIL was the most reliable & stable of the lot.
Then two days ago, it began behaving el'stupido! This is going to be somewhat thorough, so please bear with me:
1 ''Get Mail'' was taking forever to complete its first retrieval. So a force quit was necessary. Reopened MAIL, and still the retrieval seemed to stall about halfway through (15 of 35 retrieved from server). Checked with my webserver and none of the emails had attachments or anything like that.
2 Messages in my Inbox and other folders had vanished. Tried ''Rebuilding'' to no avail. My Inbox reads (at the top of the MAIL window) ''0 messages, 4 unread''. I know there are about seven ''read messages'' in my Inbox. I go to my Finder~User~Library~Mail~ and all the messages are there. Opening each message file from the Finder is no problem.
3 Used JunkMatcher to sort my HAM from SPAM prior to this weirdness and it did its job well. I thought this might've caused the screw-up. So I trashed it. Still no change in MAIL's behavior.
4 Searched other forums and came across a partial solution: trashing the Font Cache's & Mail Cache's contents; restarting; and it seemed to be working. Some folders needed ''Rebuilding'', then ...
5 ... I switch to another app, return to MAIL and choose another mailbox and it reads ''0 messages''. Check other mailboxes and ''0 messages''. Here we go again!
The total contents of the Mail folder is less than 190Mb. I have a copy of Entourage sitting on my shelf as a "MAIL, why have you forsaken me!" back-up solution. I want to remain Microsoft-free, but if I can't find a solution soon (without reinstalling Tiger) I may have to sign on with the devil!
Have a marvy day!
iMac 1GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Not resolved really ... did a clean install. That fixed it...

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