Clean out/reinstall Mail 5.2 on OS X

I'm having issues with my Mac Mail 5.2 - even though I've defined my default email account, it's using another of my emails to send out messages. I've deleted the second email account but it's still using that as the default. I've deleted all my email accounts (all gmail) and added them back but that's not fixed the problem. Everything I've read online says you need the installation disk to reinstall Mail but I upgraded my OS directly from the internet so don't have any installation disks. My mail was working fine for the last 6 months - this is a new problem. Seems like there is something corrupt with my mail so any advice on how to reinstall/clean out default settings would be appreciated.

Thank you. I've just changed it so fingers crossed this is the solution.

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