Cannot remove email account

I am trying to remove one of my Palm Pre e-mail accounts and it will not remove completely.  I have now tried 5 times and have reset the device twice.  It looks as if the account was partially removed, but it still appears in the list of accounts on my main screen and in the Preferences & Accounts page.  The only box that now appears under the account is the Outbox.  There's nothing in it.  My last attempt to remove the account was about 30 minutes ago.  It still says "Removing Account..." and continues to spin.  I'm fairly sure it will never finish.
The account I'm removing is a POP mail account.  The reason I'm removing it is because my Trash folder had become so bloated.  It contained about 4200 items at time of removal.  I'm hoping someone at Palm will eventually wake up and provide an Empty Trash command (or better yet, an auto empty feature).  I suspect this is the only e-mail software known to mankind in which you cannot empty the trash.  It blows my mind.
Anyway, my main problem right now is this account that will not go away.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a solution that does not involve a hard reset?
Thanks in advance...
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

UPDATE:
After a mere 6 hours, I finally got a notification that the e-mail account was removed!  And indeed it is now completely gone.
Silly me for being impatient!  So let this be a lesson for anyone else deleting a "large" e-mail account.  It could take a REALLY LONG time to remove an account.  I suspect my 4200 messages is small as compared with some power users out there.
Note to Palm:
For starters, it would be nice if there was a warning that account removal may take a long time.  Also, it seems to be done in the background, so there's no reason for the user to hang around waiting.  You can even quit the email app (I guess).  Beyond this, I have to say that it is absurd that removing any e-mail account should take over 6 hours.  Clearly something is fundamentally wrong with the way the data is stored and/or deleted by the e-mail app.  As a user, I think it's reasonable to expect such an operation to take no longer than 1 minute.

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