Dealing with SPF, Reply To email address & Mac Mail application

I use Mail.app and my email is hosted by a company other than my ISP. Lately, emails I am sending are bouncing back to me with SPF (Secure Policy Framework) errors. My email host has explained that I need to enter the email address I have through my ISP in the Email Address field in my Mail account preferences, and enter my other email address in the Reply To field. Is there a way to enter a Reply To address in Mail.app? Or is there another way around this SPF issue? My email host has already told me that circumventing SPF records for my account is not possible.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

No longer an issue, ISP now using SMTP authentication which I can set through Outgoing server settings in Mail Prefs.

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This is Trevor from the first post and I figured it out:
Go into mail - preferences - and delete the email account in question - the window will tell you that you'll lose all your saved mail, etc - you can save it if you like.
Then click on yes and you create a new mail account using your same incoming/outgoing settings. And, like magic, it works!
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