Mail App Corrupted by MobileMe sync

Recently (approx 2 days ago) I got a sync message informing me that I was about to add 17 email accounts and rules. I could not clear the message and so I accepted the sync, thinking I could clear it up later. Since then, my Mail app is corrupted: I can start it but it hangs while downloading.
I can get in to preferences but clicking on the tabs leaves grey highlighting on the tab icons. When I get to my accounts, the sidebar is empty. Once only, I navigated to accounts and found my list and found all my accounts in the list. When I looked in my list of outgoing servers, I found all my SMTP services duplicated and with older version. I was not able to delete any ofthe outgoing servers: clicking on "edit server list" did nothing.
Help! How do I reset my Mail? I've got Time Machine backups - what can I restore?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Paul

This example was from a Rich Text email. I'll test to see if the issue is constrained to RTF.
Thanks for the tip, although plain text just won't do in most cases where I send Rich Text. I default to Plain Text, but frequently need Rich.

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