Choosing "sent from" address

Hello, in the Mail program on my computer I used to have a drop-down box that appeared in messages I composed, below the subject line, that allowed me to select either of the two .Mac e-mail addresses I have in my .Mac account.
Recently that drop-down box has disappeared and I cannot choose to send e-mails from my secondary e-mail address.
In order to send any e-mails from that secondary address, I have to use the web-mail program, not the Mail program resident on my computer.
Can somebody help me get that drop-down box back in Mail? When I press "Reply" to some messages sent to the secondary address I can see the drop-down appear very briefly as Mail is loading the message data, but it disappears after the data is loaded.
Thanks.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The accounts pull down is generated for the list of accounts in Mail --> Preferences --> Accounts. Are both of your .Mac accounts set up there? Next, make sure under the Advanced tabs that Enable This Account is checked.

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