Mail.app missing accounts and prefs after system force-quit

My Macbook wouldn't wake up from sleep, so I force-quit it, and restarted it, and now Mail.app is giving me the "Welcome to Mail. You'll be guided through the steps to set up your mail account" welcome screen.
I entered one of my mail accounts, and it wouldn't let me set it up as POP - only IMAP. Once I got past the set up screen, all my accounts and preferences were gone, but my mailboxes were still there with all the messages I've archived.
How do I get my accounts and preferences back?
I tried this: ttp://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2791513&tstart=0 - it didn't work for me.

etatoby,
Good info, but we are all users here just like you. Apple does not read these posts (as far as I know) but you can forward this to Apple at the following link.
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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