Mail application trouble--columns wont stay

I keep resetting the order of my columns, trying to put the FROM column to the left of the SUBJECT column, but it keeps going back to a position on the right, just left of the the TO column.
How can I get my customizations to stay put?

Mail has some glitches when it comes to preserve these settings, and I still don't know of a sure fix. Note also that Mail stores these settings globally for all mailboxes, so you can't customize them differently for each one, except for small variations such as the sort order or whether messages should be organized by threads.
If Mail refuses to preserve your changes when a particular mailbox is selected, try doing it with a different mailbox. In particular, if you have more than one account, try with the Inbox aggregate and also with any of the individual account mailboxes in that group.

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I found the logs and while there is a mail.log there is no mailaccess.log file.
There is a mailaccess.log.0.gz which I decompressed and I also decompressed the mailacess.log.1.gz.
The mailaccess.log.1 file contains entries from July 10th through July 11th.
The mailaccess.log.0 file contains entries from August 14th through August 15th (today). Seems like there was a long period that did not get archived correctly.
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Aug 15 07:04:03 www postfix/pipe[24378]: 5B2201493AC: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1001, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:04:03 www postfix/pipe[24376]: 5B2201493AC: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1001, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:04:03 www postfix/cleanup[10663]: 86BD71493BA: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 15 07:04:03 www postfix/qmgr[25517]: 86BD71493BA: from=, size=19952, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 15 07:04:04 www postfix/smtp[10668]: 86BD71493BA: to=<sentto-12433195-1540-1187185326-mrbroome=avmi.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> , relay=rtn7.grp.scd.yahoo.com[66.218.66.214], delay=1, status=sent (250 ok 1187186644 qp 73498)
Aug 15 07:06:16 www postfix/pipe[26600]: 8D50C1493AF: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1002, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:06:16 www postfix/pipe[26602]: 8D50C1493AF: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1002, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:06:16 www postfix/cleanup[12865]: 56B5E1493BC: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 15 07:06:16 www postfix/qmgr[25517]: 56B5E1493BC: from=, size=51949, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
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Aug 15 07:30:50 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: connect from valhalla.mailpure.com[66.109.52.210]
Aug 15 07:30:51 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: 183AA1493D0: client=valhalla.mailpure.com[66.109.52.210]
Aug 15 07:30:51 www postfix/cleanup[7088]: 183AA1493D0: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 15 07:30:52 www postfix/qmgr[25517]: 183AA1493D0: from=<[email protected]>, size=26283, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
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Aug 14 21:43:56 www master[269]: exiting on SIGTERM/SIGINT
Aug 14 21:43:56 www deliver[24981]: backend_connect(): couldn't read initial greeting: (null)
Aug 14 21:43:56 www master[25420]: process started
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Aug 14 21:50:22 www master[25519]: process started
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Aug 14 22:40:22 www deliver[25829]: connect(/var/imap/socket/lmtp) failed: Connection refused
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Aug 15 06:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[25520]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Aug 14 23:23:50 www master[25519]: process 25520 exited, status 75
Aug 14 23:23:50 www master[25519]: ready for work
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