Gmail appears in Mail 4.2 but is not in my accounts pane

Hi all. I will try my best to explain this weird little situation about Gmail in my Mail client.
Okay - I've just bought a 27" iMac running Snow Leopard and after the setup, I configured my Mail acounts. I have three accounts, one of them being Gmail, and after everything was configured, I started to get gmail mail from way back to 2007 and my inbox kept filling up with tons of old gmails.
Next, I deleted gmail from my accounts pane in Mail. It solved the duplicate emails issue fine. In fact, I still get current Gmail mail coming in, which is weird, as Mail is no longer set up to retrieve it.
Now this is my REAL question for this post: how can I compose a message using my Gmail address? I know that since the account is not setup in Mail, it follows that the address is not selectable from my drop down menu, however, is there a way of going back and setting up Gmail in my accounts pane without getting all of those old duplicated emails?
Thanks so much,
B.

You could do a search in Gmail itself, delete the old messages, and then re-create your account. Better yet, archive those messages, and then you'll have them in Mail if you need them, but they won't be cluttering up your inbox.

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