Thunderbird Portable 3.0.4 Send and Paste Problems

Hi,

I have recently switched from Outlook Express to Thunderbird Portable 3.0.4. It's great as I can, among other tings, combine more than one account into a single inbox etc. However I have the following problems:

1.) If I copy anything from another application and try and paste it into a thunderbird email the paste does not work (I have tried Ctrl-V and right hand clicking and selecting paste). I have checked that I can paste the data into other applications such as Notepad etc and it's fine.

2.) When I try to send an email Thunderbird thinks about it for a few seconds then the email disappears and Thunderbird disappears as well (In Process Explorer the application has shut down). Re-opening Thunderbird no warning or recovery messages are displayed and I see that the email has not been sent. However If I save the email in Drafts then go to send it sends correctly. (Note: Receiving emails is no problem on any of the accounts I have set up.)

Please note that I am using Thunderbird Portable 3.0.4 with no extensions from a USB Stick with approximately 1GB free on the stick. I am running a fully patched Windows XP SP3 and have also tried the above on different windows machines and I get the same problems.

Any help on these matters would be much appreciated as they are starting to detract from an otherwise great application.

Thanks.

Gauss76.