ICal sending invites from wrong email address

My Mac has an Oedipus complex: Whenever I send an invitation from my Calendar on my iMac, it appears to be sent not from my email address but from my mother's address. (She doesn't even use my computer.)
So far, all of the settings seem to be correct:
In Calendar, Preferences / Accounts setting correctly lists my email address.
In Contacts, the "Me" card correctly identifies itself as me, with my address.
In Mail, Preferences / Accounts setting correctly lists my address.
Also in Mail, Preferences / Composing correctly lists my address under the "Send new messages from" field.
In the iCloud system preference and the iCloud website, my correct address is the only one listed.
In none of those settings does my mother's address appear.
The only think I can think of is that I gave her my old iPad for Christmas and reformatted it using her email address as the default account. That's the only time I've ever entered her address in anything. She doesn't have her own Apple ID, so I synced it using my iTunes.
Facetime now insists upon listing her address as one of my available accounts, so I'm thinking one of the Apple settings somewhere considers her address to be my newest. How do I fix this?
Chuck

I was having trouble setting the default email account in the mail app. Even moving it to the top didn't seem to work. Finally got it working by doing this:
If an account mailbox is at the top, but the account is not the default, drag it down and then back up to the top. This will reset the order and establish the top one as the default.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/61882/how-to-change-the-default-mail-ac count-in-mountain-lion

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