E52 phantom mailboxes

hello. I have the penultimate software (updater does not put in latest ) and had this problem on and off. But after e52 replaced with new one i restored memory and most was fine. . . Including email boxes which worked fine. Then yesterday . . After 5 days . . . I took picture to email to facebook and guess what. . . No email boxes set up. Immediately i checked my email and all was good. Then after swapping memory back to phone etc eventually the 2 boxes on my standby screen stopped working.
In setting up again the mailbox i set up incorrect when i first got phone back in 09 kept appearing and would be difficult to alter or for that matter delete.
Eventually after an hour i got the wrong one the phantom one to have correct info and on standby i just select the new old phantom ones rather than the now non existant ones which were working .
The reason i message about this is now when i go to pictures and send, when i click by email a different email page appears with bigger font which when i send shows a progress bar which then clears. To close you just click close and it asks if you want to save. No is not allowed so you have to click yes. The email of course just sits in your outbox until you manually go to email and wait for it to send. You then go to drafts to delete the draft you don't need. How do i
1. Delete all mailboxes that exist in the phone. It clearly has to be done at file or memory level as there are only 2 official boxes displayed but evidence of at leapt 5.
2. Make the send picture with in camera to use correct part of email so send like a normal email.
Excuse the slight sarcastic tone just after 18 months you should not expect to have to work a less efficient way with same phone.
I could totally start again. But isync and setting up sip on phone etc is long and tedious.

I have the same problem described above.
I do not see the folders on the webmail access to the mail server, only in the mail.app
Did you find a solution?
Mail 5.2
Lion 10.7.4

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outgoing
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Outgoing
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haZey
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