Mail attempts to send with an old deleted account.

I created an account for my wife in Mail which she has never used. Mail started trying to send messages from her account, unsuccessfully.
I cancelled her account except the two I use for myself but Mail still tries to use her account, every so often but not all the time. Nevertheless, when MAIL has decided to send an email with this account it just sits in the Outbox, trying over and over.
This started before I upgraded to 10.4.5, which I have also re-installed since with no changes to the way Mail behaves.
Because I did not create that account on my other disk, I attempted to install a Mail app from the other disk but it still tries to send from the cancelled account on this machine.
Is it possibly in the cache or plist files?
Marcus

No one responded to my question in a few days, so I had a look around at questions that were responded to and tried to make my question sound more interesting.
It worked. After re-phrasing my question I got replies and Ernie Stamper solved the problem quite easily.

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