How could I have lost email accounts in Mountain Lion?

After returning from lunch today I discovered that the only email account remaining in Mail was my iCloud account. My me.com and earthlink.net accounts had simply disappeared along with all related folders and saved emails. I am running OS 10.8.1 on an early 2008 Mac Pro. All was well earlier in the day while I was working with ViaCAD Pro V7 and I had not been doing anything in the way of system changes or working extensively with Mail within the last several days. Have any issues surfaced in the OS or current version of Mail that would explain this? This is really scary.

etresoft,
Maybe you can help me.. I'm pulling out my hair. I had my brand new MacBook Pro replaced today because of a faulty display, and spent the day migrating.
Long story short, after restoring and migrating shenanigans, I have everything back on my new computer, BUT... I need to change only my Home Folder name, and it has a space AND a number in it! Don't ask me how this happened
When I go into Users and Groups, and then right-click on my account and go to Advanced, it shows me that my "Account name" is all one word, basically "firstlastname", but my "Home Directory" folder is "firstlastname 1" (with a space). I think this was a secondary account that Migration Assistant created, but somehow my actual account name is correct... and yet the Home Directory has a space and a 1
So all I need to do is change the Home Directory name (because Dropbox is looking for it to be "firstlastname" and it no longer is, among a myriad of other issues). But I don't think I can use your tip in order to do this in the Terminal if there's a space in the name, can I?
I appreciate any help anyone can give me. This all stemmed from Apple's shoddy workmanship: a dead pixel in a brand new MBP, and then when they replaced the screen, the Wi-Fi died and they said the antenna in the display was faulty, hence they gave me this new machine.
Thank you!!

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