Can't create any Mail accounts...

When attempting to create mail accounts on my Touch (with 2.0 software) I get nowhere...
Let me rephrase that, I've tried creating yahoo and gmail accounts, and I can enter all account info, and the Touch connects to verify account info, then tells me either Gmail Account Verified or Yahoo Account Verified, drops back to the "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" Settings page, but the supposedly-added accounts are nowhere to be found... I only see "Add Account..." under "Accounts", i.e. there ain't no accounts to be found nowhere, no-how...
I've reset Network Settings, then tried restoring the 2.0 software and then creating the accounts again... nuthin'.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

Here's the update: I bought the Touch second-hand from someone who'd upgraded to an iPhone 3G last week, and it turns out it had previously been jailbroken, and he restored before selling it to me... I upgraded it to 2.0 once I got it.
I'm guessing that, at some point, it was restored with a backup rather than as a 'new iPod', as this issue has happened to others... but it took a mittfull of googling over the weekend to discover this apparently-obscure issue!
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global theUsername
global thePassword
set success to 1
set theResult to true
if theResult is not equal to false
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else
set success to 0
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