Can't delete or edit an old e-mail account

I just upgraded my iPhone from 1.1.4 to 2.0 and I had an old (inactive) e-mail account in on my phone. Now I can't remove it, edit it or do anything with it, it's just there. And when I try to open the Mail application it just hangs for 5 seconds and then closes it self.
I even tried using iTunes to remove the e-mail account by doing a sync with Mail Accounts in iTunes but then iTunes comes up with an error: "iTunes could not sync mail accounts to the iPhone "My iPhone" because the mail accounts are in use by the iPhone."
Is this possibly a glitch in the software upgrade? Does some one know how I can fix this?

Did you ever find a fix for this? Mine is doing exactly the same thing, even with 2.01 - I hoped that might fix it. I'd rather not have to reset and erase the whole phone.

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