Won't display e-mails

Hi All,
I'm having a big problem that just started tonight, no changes have been made to the system.
One mail account will not load the messages into the inbox after fetching them. The activity viewer shows it's fetching all the e-mails (ie. Fetching 402 of 402), but it just hangs when it gets to the last one, no matter what number it is. As new e-mails go on the server, it hangs on the last one. I then have to force quit. All other accounts, even accounts from same mail server work fine.
I have repaired permissions, but nothing. The e-mail can be retrieved with thunderbird and on other imacs with Mail and same account fine, but I need it working again on this one. Any ideas???
Thx
Intel iMac Core Duo 20" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Weird, I just deleted a few thousand e-mails from the server and it worked after that. Doesn't explain why it worked fine on all other imacs, but oh well, working again... Now if Safari would just stop crashing after the 10.4.9 update.

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