Can't remove unwanted mail account in Preferences

On my network, I have a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard Server. I had previously activated Mail services on the SNS machine which automatically pushed an email account to the MBP - so alongside my regular Apple MobileMe and Gmail accounts in Apple Mail, I have a greyed out email account provided by Snow Leopard Server.
However - I have since turned off and disconnected the SLS mac Mini from the network (after turning off the Mail service). I now have a greyed out email account on my MBP - obviously I have tried deleting it under Preferences > Account but it is removed for a moment and then re-appears. It does this regardless of if the MBP is on the network so something locally is forcing this email account to remain in Apple Mail.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks.

The mail account is owned by the server, not the MBP, so I would image that as the mail account is on the server, it will need to be deleted from the server, with the MBP connected so as both mail clients can synchronise.
Hope this helps

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