Can't Delete A Mail Account

Mail Help says to highlight the Account in Preferences/Accounts and just press the Delete button. Well, that doesn't work. Anyone know of a method for deleting an existing mail account that does work?

I've clicked on every Delete and sign on the keyboard, each individually, in rapid succession, and simultaneously. The only thing that happens is I hear ding-ding sound each time I press any one of them or more of those keys. I admit that the sign threw me when I first saw it, but I think I've tried every possible key and key combination. Any other ideas for how to delete an Email account?

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Here's the complete picture. The G4 internal drive has OS 9.2.2. An external FW drive attached to the G4 has 10.3.9 (G4 boots both). The plan was to clean/sanitize 10.3.9 and then, from 10.3.9, use SuperDuper! to clone it to another partition on the FW drive. Then erase the internal OS 9.2.2 disk and then restore the 10.3.9 clone to the internal G4 drive. The FW drive will not be given to the new person. SuperDuper! ignores deleted files so the resulting internal 10.3.9 drive in the G4 will have no sectors with deleted information that could be subject to data mining. Not exactly a clean install but hopefully not harmful.
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At this point it is mainly intellectual curiosity that drives me to solve the setup assistant problem. The nerve of that thing to resurrect old deleted account information rather than letting me build a new account with different information.
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David, it wasn't Apple support, it was Help in Mail. I searched it out again and read it more carefully this time. It says to click the delete button (I misread delete "key") and when I went back to mail there is a delete and an add button at the bottom of Accounts. da!
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