Mail - how to delete old email addresses from FROM box?

I'm using:
Mail 4.5
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
iCloud IMAP for my mac.com/me.com email address
When I compose new messages, in the FROM box are listed old mac.com email alias addresses that I have deleted.
I tried deleting the icloud IMAP account within mail, then recreating that account. But still, those old alias email addresses still appear. And one of them has the name of my ex-girlfriend, so I really want that off my screen, haha!
How can I delete those expired email address from the from box?
Otherwise, my iCloud IMAP account works fine.
Thanks for your help!
Bill

Thanks, Kurt.
Yes, those are email aliases (that I created on mobileme) that I no longer I have. I still have the main mac.com address, but today I deleted the aliases through iCloud.
And thanks. But I already tried that. After deleting the iCloud aliases on the iCloud website, I then deleted the iCloud account in preferences. And in the FROM box, ALL the icloud email aliases and main mac.com addresses disappeared. But when I recreated the iCloud acount within preferences, all those aliases reappeared in the from box.
I did another test - I set up the email account on my friend's computer (also running 10.6.8). And same problem. So looks like the problem is on iCloud's end.
Meaning that though I deleted those aliases from the iCloud website, when I create an email account from within Mail, it gets the info from the iCloud server and that hasn't been updated to reflect deleting those aliases.
Hm.

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