Need help saving email from corrupted Debian

[astrophysicist]

Hello.
Here is my scenario:

I needed to reinstall windows, but in doing so, my grub bootloader was bypassed by windows startup. I needed to get the grub bootloader back so I put my debian install cd in hops to just install the grub bootlaoder. I was unsuccessful in getting it to install, however I got Knoppix LiveCD and used it to install the grub bootlaoder. Now when I select debian kernel 2.6 to load (that is the only linux I have), I get an error at the end of the loading saying the xserver cannot be started. The setup is incorect.

It says it is missing /usr/x11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore
It says it failed to initalize core devices.
Also my eth0 isn't configtured. dhcpcd isn't a command in my system, but dhcpclient is. However I get an error after entering the command dhcpclient saying that the address family is not compatible with the protocol???

All I really want to do is save my email message from mozilla-thunderbird and then I will reinstall debian (reformat it). I really need to retrieve these message though.
Maybe I need to somehow configure eth0?
Any ideas!!

Thanks.

- Astrophysicist

[Vergil83]

did you try what was suggested at http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-61237.html