Apple Mail randomly decided to delete my email accounts on restart!

Hey Folks,
A few days ago I did the apple updater thing, and I had restarted my computer since then with no problems! Now all of a sudden all my email accounts along with the emails that were displaying in my Apple Mail app are all gone. Here's a snapshot, i"m also on apple mail 3.2
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However, I checked the library files and all my accounts are still in there. Have a look.
http://i27.tinypic.com/2rgm24p.png
Now, here's a question, how do I turn everything the way it was. I even had signatures for my email accounts, what do I do with those?
-Joey

You can't merge iCloud accounts.
You could move all your calendars contacts etc over from the account you don't want to the one you do, it's not simple but about all I can suggest.

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