Mail does not see accounts after shutdown but are in Mail Folder

Several days ago upgradeD an iMac from Mac OS 10.5.8 to 10.6.1. After the initial update Mail did not recognize any mail accounts that were in the Mail folder in user/Library. Solved my replacing user folder with one backed up up several days before by Time Machine.
Yesterday upon start-up I noticed that my earlier Time Machine backups were no longer seen by Time Machine however, Mail seemed OK. This morning, upon start-up, Mail again does not recognize any accounts, and I am dead in the water!
The Mail Folder still seems to look OK, but Mail will not input from this folder.
Is there any way without recreating all 8 mail accounts and have Mail rebuild?
I do have daily Retrospect tape backups.
Any help out there?

this means that your mail preference file was reset. quit Mail and restore the file /users/username/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist from the most recent backup. start Mail and it will recognize its existing accounts and mailboxes. however, something is wrong with your system as this should not be happening with any regularity.

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