Is Mail 6.2 Flakey

I've been having intermittant problems with Mai ever since I installed the latest version of Mail (v - 6.2) as part of the Mountain Lion (ML) installation.  My iMac 27" became so unstable that it was suggested that I erase my hard drive and start again with a new version of ML, and therefore, Mail.  I did so with some anxiety and everything but Mail seems to be working properly. 
I have two Macs - a laptop with Mail 6.0 initially installed - later upgraded to Mail6.2- and ML installed, and the iMac with Mail 6.2 and ML installed.  I finally got both versions able to receive and send e-mail messages after talking to my ISP.  But this morning when I opened mail to review the over-night received stuff I again got an error message.  The changes that I made to Mail in the System Preferences yesterday were gone and I had to reenter data that I had entered yesterday.  When I attempted to quit the Mail preference widows I was not asked if I wanted to Save the changes.
And just a while ago I got a huge dump of many previous messages that I had already reviewed and most of which had been deleted from the iMac.
Am I the only person with these gremlins in Mail?  What can I do to permanently remedy the situation?  Plz advise.

Hi Tom, your not the only one, but I don't have the problem.
The changes that I made to Mail in the System Preferences yesterday were gone and I had to reenter data that I had entered yesterday.
What exact changes were they please?

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