Need help with "Mail". Won't load and gives me no options, not even Quit.

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My Mail application is not responding. When it opens it looks like it is trying to fetch the mail, but nothing is moving. The little dial that shows progress is at about the one o'clock mark and is stuck there. I can't open any emails and it will not let me go to a different mailbox. All choices, including Quit are greyed out, it is just stuck and won't budge. I have forced quit and restarted the program several times, repaired permissions, restarted the computer, and I am at a loss for what else to do. It is like it is hung up, but I don't know what to do to get it to reset.

I have checked the email account it is wired up to, at the online web portal, and it is working. It is only wired up to one IMAP account. It is whatever version of Mail came with Tiger. It won't even let me look at the "about Mail" option, it is also greyed out. Anything I click just gives me the "ding" sound and does nothing.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am at a total loss here.