Mail is changing settings in preferences!

Lots of users are exposed to the Mail 3 bug (Leopard) where Mail is randomly changing settings in "Preferences"-"Account"-"Advanced" from "Password" to "APOP".
(The visual effect of this bug for the average user is that Mail will promt you for a password-dialogue box, which of course is useless trying to enter, since the settings has been changed in the preferences)
This is only in conjunction with certain Pop accounts and happens when Mail is connecting to the Pop-server (This happens most often the first time Mail connects after launch).
The Pop accounts affected are (as far as I know) Verizon in USA, Demon in England and Glocalnet in Sweden.
There are probably more Pop account-providers that are affected so I want as many reports as possible from people with this problem.
Please, all of you with this problem, report this to Apple,
http://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html
And please, reply frequently to this thread.
I want this thread to be on top of the thread-list until Apple will fix this bug.
Michael in Sweden

This definitely is happening to me. I've had a Mac mini for only a month and have a dot MAC email account and my local dial-up ISP account.
Had a number of issues setting these up and after re-doing them 3 or 4 times, finally got them both working. Three days later, the dot MAC stopped working because Mail was trying to log on with SSL. It had been working fine before this. When I turned the machine on in the morning and went online, I kept getting error messages from the dot MAC system.
It's very annoying.
How does Thunderbird for the MAC work? Maybe that is the solution to this one.

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