Deleting Existing Mail Accounts When Applying Config Profile

Ok, this might be kind of an easy one for some of you, but we can't seem to figure it out.
WITHOUT doing a remote wipe on the user's iPhone prior to installing our Profile(Made in the iPhone Configuration Utility), is there a way to have the Profile remove any and all existing email accounts when installed?
Here's our situation --
We have numerous un-managed iphones connecting to our OWA for email, now we want to manage them, so our policy is changing, they must have our profile installed. What's wrecking our vibes is when we install the profile on our test phone, the existing mail account is still useable. Now we are changing URLs because we're moving to a 2010 exchange system, but the old URL still works, it just redirects the person to the 2010 system...
So what we need is a way to remove the existing mail profiles completely, even if it wipes their GMAIL or YAHOO. It's fine, it's in the document they sign granting us permission to do so... or do we have to wipe their device completely prior, and if so, is there a way the profile when installed could wipe the device?
Thanks!
-Scynthyace

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