I deleted something and now Mail wants me to set up a new account

hello
I don't remember exactly what happened but I was on a site that somehow opened my mail . I must have clicked on something . I noted the time it happened and went to finder and deleted everything that was created or modified at that time --days go by --(I use my eMac mainly for mail) and when I tried to open Mail on my powerbook I am welcomed and asked to start a new account . I checked the User>library>Mail and all the mailboxes and mail are still there .
I still have everything in the trash and one of the files had mail in the name so I dragged it into the hard drive thinking it would know where to go (you can tell I'm a real computer wiz;) I don't know where it went but it didn't help .
Here is what I deleted and is in the Trash;
lots of numbers.cache
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.Safari.plist
Downloads.plist
History.plist
isync.administrative
isctay7186-2.wmv
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2
com.apple.mail.plist is just sitting on the hard drive and doesn't know where to go.
I hope to learn something here . Anything that anyone can tell me about these files would be interesting . I hope to solve this and give points to my helper
Powerbook   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Panther eMac
Powerbook   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Panther eMac

Did you re-create your account or accounts and/or import any mailboxes from the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail?
If not, quit the Mail.app and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Preferences.
Move the old com.apple.mail.plist file (that is just sitting on the hard drive and doesn't know where to go, ;-)) within the Preferences folder for your Home directory.
Since you launched the Mail.app after moving this com.apple.mail.plist file out of the Preferences folder, more than likely a new com.apple.mail.plist file has been created. If so, moving the old com.apple.mail.plist file back within your Preferences folder will replace the new preference file created.
Launch Mail and everything should be restored as before.
The com.apple.mail.plist file stores all account information and general Mail.app preferences.
The MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 file is the file that tracks messages downloaded from the server for a POP type account and your settings for removing messages from the server when downloaded. This file is located within the POP account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) at the first level within the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail and if you have multiple POP type accounts created in the Mail.app, the same file name is located within each POP account named folder.
This file isn't important and can be deleted.
When removing this file from within a POP account named folder (which should be done with the Mail.app quit), a new MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 file will be created automatically by Mail when re-launching Mail and any messages already downloaded by this account that remain on the server will be downloaded again.
If you have selected to remove messages from the server when downloaded by the account (which is available at Mail > Preferences > Accounts under the Advanced tab for the account preferences), deleting this file will have no effect.
For future reference, you need to be careful about what you remove and from where unless you know the ramifications before doing so.

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