Mail duplicates mailboxes

Just upgraded to Tiger and now Mail duplicates my .Mac Account, giving me one mailbox with that name, besides my actual account name. Can't get rid of either. When trying to deactivate in Preferences it won't save because both have the same account path ! What to do?
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   933 MHz 640 MB 15GB available

Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup),  it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folderto the Desktop.
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/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
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