Mail is changing my return email address and won't stop

I have 3 gmail addresses set up in Mail. Two are for 2 separate businesses and 1 is for personal. When sending a message, no matter which account I put in the return address box, when I get a reply it comes back to the inbox of my personal gmail address. All my business emails are being replied to my personal address and it's confusing my clients. It also makes it a pain to keep my business emails organized.
When I check the reply messages, they have been changed from my business return address to this personal address. This is really ticking me off. I just switched from a pc and was hoping the mac mail client was going to work better than Outlook but so far it is worse. I thought all this mac stuff was supposed to bug free, no crashes, etc., etc. So far I'm having some serious buyers remorse. It ain't living up to the reputation. I got a number of other issues but I'll keep this discussion to the mail thing.
Help. Please.
Thanks,
Roy

I'm running OSX 10.7.2 btw. Mail is 5.1. I have a drop down box below the subject line in my "new message" that says "From" and I have a choice of any of the email addresses but no matter what I put in that line, replies always come back to the personal address. I've changed the preference in compose to one of my business email addresses and I think I'll just leave it like that and see what happens. Maybe after a day or 2 I'll change it back and see if it works properly then.
Found Library and mail preference file but I'm not ready to test dumping that and having to reload accounts again. If nothing changes, I'll give that a try.
Hey, thanks again for all the advice. It's been very helpful!

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