Mail changes default sending account intermittently

I'm running OSX 10.6 and Mail 4.6.
The default send account designation has recently become screwy. Have changed no settings. Seems to pick an account at random. What I want to use as a default send account is at the top of the list in Accounts, as recommened. It is Gmail IMAP. Mail has changed it to a different Gmail account, but also once an SBC account. If I don't pay attention to the From line, I end up sending from the wrong account. Oddly, my iPhone has had the same problem--beginning around the same time. Don't use iCloud.

Look in Mail, Preferences, Account Information tab for each account in question and see if the option at the bottom of the page for Outgoing Mail Server 'Use only this server' is checked.
This screenshot is from Mail 6.6 and an iCloud account (OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, because I'm not on my 10.6.8 system at the moment), but I'm certain there's a similar option in Mail on OS X 10.6.8 regardless of which email type (POP or IMAP) is in use.

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Message was edited by: Andreas Carlsson

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