Weird New Mail Bug

About three days ago, my outbox began collecting emails in it... I send an email, I get no error messages of any kind, and then the message gets added to what are now more than 25 unsent emails. The Outbox takes more than a minute after the app is launched to appear--other folders show up right awayl... as if the Mail app is slowly being reminded of its existence. Sending a few additional test messages seems to hasten its appearance.... odd, I know.
Also:
I continue to receive emails without any problem.
AT&T verifies my server settings are completely correct.
I can send mail from other computers I own on the same network, using the same account/settings.
As a temp workaround, I copied a folder full of outgoing messages from the library>mail>messages>outgoing, copied them to a different computer, opened them in Mail on the new machine and sent without incident--but what's wrong with my laptop Mail???
Is there a way to re-install Mail on my laptop without losing all my messages and mailboxes???
Any assistance deeply appreciated.
MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Thanx for the points.
If you do the Mail reinstall and combo update followed by software update to get the subsequently released security updates, and you still have the same problem, be sure to post back; I would wonder whether trashing the Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file would then be in order, but since you are a POP mail guy, somebody that has/uses POPmail might want to weigh in here at that point regarding how to make sure you don't lose all your saved downloaded POP mail. I'm just an IMAP guy so not comfortable advising with POP mail issues, so maybe one of those guys in this forum's "Top 10" list could jump in here at that juncture.

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