I had a similiar problem in OS 9.1, and on the fourth download of PowerMail it worked just fine.
Midi Don caused electrons to hula in cyberspace with: >I have tried deleting PowerMail prefs. PowerMail 4.2b1 has created a >folder in my Documents folder to contain the data files, but can't seem >to 'get going'. It quits before the toolbar appears.

