Vista - cannot send emails, deleted emails dont appear in deleted folder

I'm a sporadic user of emails, so bear with me.
When i first installed live mail i added

1 my windows hotmail account
2 my aol account
3 a personal certificate for emails from comodo

I could receive and delete emails ok from my hotmail account.
however the aol account always threw up a connection error and i deleted it
according to the help guide.

I recently tried to email someone( first time using the desktop mail to send)
and it took forever to send ( or did it )

i checked my sent messages it wasn't there.
i checked my outbox it wasn't there.
i didn't receive an error message.

Now when i delete stuff from my inbox it isn't there in the deleted folder
either.

I can understand the not sending emails if this is something to do with the
certificate.(need help removing it if so)
can't understand the rest.

re-install?...lol






so
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Thems as dies be the lucky ones! oooaarrrr !!!