Cannot delete a Mailbox in Mail

I have a mail box that i set up in an earlier attempt to try and use Mail.
Now i am back trying Apple Mail again and i wish to delete this old Mail box.
There are some things very strange happening in regard to this box,
Firstly, and most annoying i cannot delete it i have tried everything deleting it in the finder as well as via the Delete Mailbox command in Mail and nothing seems to work, well to be honest it appears to work, then some hours or days later...back it comes.
Also a few of my current mail messages are being put into this old mail box..... i have no rules doing anything like this so what is putting them in here is a mystery and why i cannot get rid of the complete mailbox is driving me nuts.......
Is it safe to remove the mail prefs? or will that cause utter mayhem and destruction?
Any help would be appreciated.
thx
John

Hey BSK_AplSprtCm,
Thanks for the question. I understand that you are experiencing issues with your Mail account. It sounds like you may need to configure which mailbox is your Trash mailbox. To do so, see the following:
Mail (Mavericks): If messages aren’t stored where expected on the mail server
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14957
If there’s another mailbox on the IMAP server (for example, Sent Items) that contains the messages you’re looking for, you can have Mail use that mailbox to store messages. To do so, select that mailbox (listed under the account’s name and icon) in the Mail sidebar, choose Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For, then choose Drafts, Sent, Trash, or Junk, as applicable. You can select any mailbox on your IMAP server to store draft, sent, deleted, or junk messages. If Mail can’t upload messages to a server mailbox, copies of the messages aren’t saved.
Thanks,
Matt M.

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