Mail is taking me through a new account set up!

I ran the preferential treatment utility and it said my preferences appear ok. Doea this mean I have bigger problems?
Thanks for any help!

Very small hard drive in today's standards. I have an old TiBook G4 with a 30 GB hard drive that I still use on occasion and I don't know how I survived with it for so long. It required that I use an external firewire drive to save selected data.
A 20 GB hard drive is actually slightly less than that (actual capacity) and although just under 4 GB of free space shouldn't be a problem or issue, you need to keep an eye on this. OS X makes generous use of paging or virtual memory regardless the amount of RAM installed which uses available free hard space.
Check this link.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html
Although I've never experienced the same or any problem that required targeting the Mail.app preference file, this file can become corrupt over time as with any other application preference file but the lower amount of free hard drive space available, the more likely problems with preference files will occur.
Not sure why the preferential treatment utility reported no problems though.
When was the last time your ran Disk First Aid repair via Disk Utility when booted from your Tiger install disc?

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