Changing From address for Apple .Mac account

Greetings,
I use Mail with multiple IMAP email accounts. I'm using my .Mac account as my primary "incoming" account although it receives email for multiple addresses.
In my Accounts Preferences, there is a field to change the From address (by default [email protected]) so that when I compose messages my from address would be [email protected] (the primary address I use).
It lets me change this field and asks me if I want to save the changes, but then reverts back to [email protected] as soon as I move to another screen and come back.
Any suggestions on how I can configure Mail to handle this properly? Any other mail client such as Thunderbird would let me do this and it works fine for other accounts in Mail.
It seems that Apple put in a special rule to not let me change my .Mac account even though I can change all the others. That's something I would expect Microsoft to do but not Apple...
Suggestions?
~Josh

I figured out how to do this by setting up my .Mac account as an IMAP account instead of .Mac. It takes the same settings, but lets you make the change to your from address.

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