Edit the new mail account wizzard?

I want to change how the "new email account" wizzard works. Currently, if you see this wizzard, it trys to get you to make a .Mac email account and you have to change it to POP. (For the average user that stumbles over this {bad} wizzard, they do not know they need to change to POP and instead proceed down a worthless path) I would like to change the wizzard so that the .Mac is not the default choice.
I thought I saw somewhere that you can edit or make an entry in that menu to pre-populate your site's settings. Is this true? Where can I go to edit/set this???
It would also be nice if we could have a way to skip the "wizzard" all together and just get a nice blank "new user" account screen where we can fill in the info instead of waiting for the wizzard to take forever in what it has to do... (it should not take 5 minutes to setup a new email account and it does with the wizzard)

The AccountSetupAssistant, aka wizzard, is hard coded into the Mail.app/Contents/Resources/XXX.lproj/AccountSetupAssistant.nib. Good luck modifying that. Check at MacOSXHints. There might be something there, but I don't know, since I use Eudora.

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