I can't get rid of Inactive Internet Accounts

Under System Preferences -> Internet Accounts I have two Inactive accounts that will not go away. I can highlight them and click the ( - ) button at the bottom, and they will go away for about 10 seconds, but then they reappear.
A screen shot is here: http://imgur.com/MaToSzr
Some additional details:
Through the Internet Accounts panel, I can log in to one of them at a time, and that's actually what I would like in the long run, but there's always at least one inactive ghost sitting there.
If I change my Apple ID to use the inactive one, then I can log into that one, but now the other one becomes the ghost.
Even if I make one them an alternate Apple ID, I can't log into it through the Internet Accounts panel; it says I'm using the wrong password.
My thinking is that if I could find where these reside on the hard drive, I could wipe them and start over fresh. Anyone have any ideas on what's causing this and how I can fix it?
Thanks in advance.

After screwing around with it for a while, I finally set the outlook.com e-mail address as the primary e-mail address for the problem Apple ID and went ahead and signed in to that. For whatever reason, the yahoo.com e-mail address didn't re-appear as a ghost so I was as content as I could be considering my need for order. I let it run like that for a day, syncing everything, getting comfortable, and then I went to my Contacts app and found there was an iCloud group that I could not remove. When I went to menu -> Contacts / Preferences and selectedAccounts, there were probably a hundred Inactive accounts associated with the problem Apple ID.
So now I went back into System Preferences / Internet Accounts and tried to uncheck the Contacts sync for the problem Apple ID, but it just kept re-checking itself. So I re-removed the problem Apple ID again. It wasn't reappearing after 10 seconds like it usually did, but I figured that was just a matter of time. Now that I knew there were a 100 ghost address books, I set out to remove them all.
I navigated to /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources where I found all of the ghost address books. Each one has it's one folder and in each unique folder is aConfiguration.plist file that has the associated e-mail account in the text somewhere. I went through each Configuration.plist file and for every one that had the problem Apple ID associated with it, I deleted it's parent folder. I closed and re-started theContacts app and all of the 100 ghost accounts were gone. Also, during the 30+ minutes it took me to delete all those, the ghost account never re-appeared in System Preferences / Internet Accounts.
My theory is that those 100 or so inactive Address books kept re-populating the Internet Accounts in System Preferences.

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