[Evolution] userCreateNewItem problem with Evo1.2.4

[Rupert Heesom <raheesom bigfoot com>]

Guys:

I've been using Evo a long time without issues, until I wanted to mess with my signature setup!  I tried to 
change the default signature in the default mail account from "auto" to ".signature".  This crashed Evo, and 
it complained about corrupt data when it reloaded.

I found half the mail accounts corrupted, so deleted or recreated accounts as needed.  Evo collects mail fine 
from my default mail account, but it refuses to open up a mail creation editor.

I've got error msgs when loading Evo from a terminal and recreating the problem, but cannot trace the problem 
successfully from there.

However, since I'm using Evo 1.2.4, and I gather from this list, that Evo is now in version 1.4.3, is it 
worth my upgrading rather than troubleshooting?

Terminal error msgs:

evolution-shell-WARNING **: Error in userCreateNewItem -- IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

[raheesom Rupert-Mandrake raheesom]$ 
evolution-shell-WARNING **: Error changing interactive status of component 
OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent to FALSE -- IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

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I tried tracing the problem to either user accounts, or Evo settings files.
I tried loading Evo under root, it worked fine.
I tried getting Evo to re-create my settings files by moving the ~/evolution directory.  That didn't help.  
Although Evo created a directory for itself again, problem was still there!