can't see new mail body or send mail

From: PeterButt (rpbutt2_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:00:53 -0400

Hi,

I have XP Home SP2 (if it matters). When I open OE, I get all my mail
downloaded, as I should, but when I open the mail, I see the header info but
no body/message text. I can click on properties and see the source, but
that isn't helpful. When I hover my cursor over the preview pane, it has
the pointer with an hourglass.

When I create new mail to send, I can type in the email address I'm sending
to and a subject, but when I try to type the body of the message, I can't
even get the cursor to appear in the window (again, the mouse cursor just
shows the arrow and the hourglass, but only when hovering over the body of
the email). When I try to hit send, I get a message that "outlook has not
finished downloading this message". That makes no sense because this is a
message I'm creating.

Help please!!!