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Please venture at least a guess! It has been over 48 hours and Thunderbird is still comatose.

The problem was some corruption in my profile. Here's what I did:

1. Find my Profile on my Mac

    In Finder, from the Go menu, select Go to folder...
    Enter ~/Library/ and click Go

2. Moved my entire profile to a safe place on my computer.

    In the Library folder, drag Thunderbird to
       somewhere other than the Library folder (e.g. Desktop)

3. Created a new profile

   Start Thunderbird
   When prompted to create a account pointing to my email server

4. Find and copy the things I wanted to keep

         from my old profile to the new one
    Restart Thunderbird after copying each thing 
         to be sure it is not the cause of the problem
         (None of them was the problem)

The things I copied: - Address book = abook.mab - Local Mail folders = Mail: Local Folders: {all of the files and folders} - Message Filters = ImapMail/{my email account}/msgFilterRules.dat

i have the same problem... stuck on "applying update"