How to delete sender personalities from deleted accounts?

I'm helping a friend eliminate several obsolete mail accounts in the Tiger Mail program.
She has deleted the old accounts (in Mail Preferences), and now has a single .mac mail account which she is using via Apple Mail, not the browser.
When she composes a new message, the default sending account is still her identity in one of the deleted accounts. She can use the pop-up to switch her identity to her dot-mac account, but how can she make that the default -- and eliminate the obsolete ID from the deleted account?
FYI, the deleted account ID shows in Red on the identity popup when composing mail.
She has rebooted her G5 iMac and the problem persists.
She is running an early version of Tiger (10.4.2?), but I'm not going to talk her through upgrading that over long-distance phone.
The Mail Preferences for her dot-mac mail account appear to be in order and the account works fine. But the deleted account identity still hangs around as the default when composing.

Hi Boece: I'm not familiar with mai preferences within 10.4.2: But maybe give this a try. Within Mail preferences go to "Composing tab" and check mid way down the pane to "Send new mail from" within the drop down list select the account required form there. Good Luck

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