It turns out that when I thought I depressed the "email forward" button on my mail options, I apparently deactivated it instead. I did a test by alternately pushing the "ask for confirmation when deleting an address book entry" and creating/deleting dummy entries. Thanks to 2xp, I was able to verify the mail function works when I dinged 34 :D Since I hadn't received a post in so long, I didn't think I would ever have to admit my mistake. Thanks so much for following up with me.