IPhone Notes: Accounts button disappeared...

After upgrading my iPhone 3GS successfully to iOS 4.2.1 I managed to configure over-the-air notes syncing between my iPhone and my iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.5 without any problem:
I just configured Mail on my iMac to create new notes and to dos in my MobileMe account and on my iPhone I verified under Settings > Mail, Calendar, ... that for my MobileMe account notes syncing was switched on. Finally I selected under Settings > Notes my MobileMe account as the default account for my iPhone for new notes.
There are no other email accounts configured on my iPhone and notes sync is disabled in iTunes and in the MobileMe control panel on my Mac, because this is not needed for over-the-air syncing between only one iMac and one iPhone.
There are no local notes neither on my Mac nor on my iPhone.
As I said before: it worked immediately without any problem and it still does so today.
But: all of a sudden the "Accounts" button in the Notes App on my iPhone disappeared and under Settings > Notes on my iPhone I can now only select the font for notes, but no longer the default account for new notes!
Yes, all was set to MobileMe before and all is still working fine, but what if I want to switch back to local notes on my iPhone??? I cannot select "On my iPhone" in the Notes App (because of the missing Accounts button) and I cannot set the default account for notes to "On my iPhone" (because of the missing selection under Settings > Notes).
Is this expected behaviour because there are no local notes on the iPhone/iMac, iTunes notes syncing is switched off and there is only one account (MobileMe) configured with over-the-air notes syncing switched on, so the number of relevant accounts is just one -> no need to show the Accounts button?
Why could I see the empty "On my iPhone" notes account in the Notes App and under Settings > Notes before I switched everything to MobileMe?
And how could I switch it back should I ever decide to do so?
Thanks in advance for any helpfull hint...
Michael

Okay I figured this thing out. The accounts button is only there in one of two cases: 1) you have two email accounts that can also sync notes, for instance, Yahoo and MobileMe, or 2) if you created a note on your device BEFORE setting up a mail account with notes syncing and then subsequently set up say, a MobileMe account for instance.
#2 is what what happened in my case. I had created a note on my device before I set up my MobileMe account. By default, this note was local on "On My iPhone". Then I set up my MobileMe account and all my notes created in Apple Mail were pulled down from the server to my device. Now I had the "Accounts" tab in the Notes app allowing me to view "All Notes" (the one local plus all my MobileMe network notes), notes "On My iPhone" allowing me to view the local note, and "MobileMe" that allowed me to view only the MobileMe network notes. Then I deleted the local note, and the Accounts tab disappeared, because now, by default, I only had MobileMe network notes on my device. Once the accounts tab disappeared, the only way for me to get it back was delete my MobileMe account and all it's data from my device, create a new local note, and then set up my MobileMe account again and pull down all my network notes and other data from the server again. Once I did that, the Accounts tab came back, and I had the choices again for "All Notes", "On My iPhone", and "MobileMe", and also had the option in settings to choose the default location for new notes in the Settings app.
If you do not have an account set up on your phone that can sync notes OTA (over the air), then all notes you create will be local and the only way to sync them back to your computer will be when you connect the iPhone to your Mac with the USB sync cable, and have notes syncing turned on in iTunes under the "Info" tab in your iPhone settings.
That's it.
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