Duplicate email account

did the 10.7.4 update yesterday and now I have a duplicate mail account with all the same email. I had my incoming mail server set to 535box.bluehost. Now I also have one set to mail.mywebhost. I tried deleting the duplicate yesterday but it screwed up all the mail in the other account. Any suggestions on how to elimate one without messing with the other?
Thanks,
Bruce

I had two of my mailboxes duplicated after same update, so deleted the duplicates in mail preferences.
However, the original mailboxes then lost all email content and showed only headers, so I rebuilt them both and hey presto - entire contents lost of both mailboxes. Not happy .
Anyone else?
Better still, has anyone got any idea how I might recover the lost email? Have tried the hosting server but it's all disappeared from there too.

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