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A solution... but not a perfect one... After installing Snow Leopard, Thunderbird crashed every time I opened it. My wifi also stopped working. I am fortunate to have a good sys admin at my job. He fixed the wifi by simply removing a bad DNS setting.

Thunderbird was harder. Long story short, he concluded that Thunderbird was conflicting with some user settings. The work-around was to create a new user Account on my system (System Preferences/Accounts/Create new account), install Thunderbird there, then import my settings to the new User. My email is stored on the server (IMAP) so my email client is working again. The downside is that you can't bring everything over -- an exact replication of the Account settings from the old account will likely cause the same problems -- and it takes a while to set up my desktop how I like it, but at least my preferred email client is working again.