Mail keeps asking me for password...never done it in the 3 years previous

Hey All..
I am having a little trouble with my Mail. I have 2 accounts on my MBP. One is my .Mac mail and the other is my PO3 mail. For the past year or so everything has been fine (and the previous 2 years on my PB) But, yesterday I was messing around using "Main Menu" application cleaning up my computer.
I have never used it before so I was just trying to make some space by removing things. Anyway, did the following things:
* Clean User Cache
* Clean System Cache
* Empty Browser Cahe
* Clean Font Cache
* Remove Corrupt Preferences
* Clean All Logs
* Remove Temporary Files
I did all of these and just wondered if any of this would have had an affect on my Mail. I also have MSN Messenger on my laptop and iChat and when I open them I am also now prompted for my password.
I went in to the mail preferences and sure enough on both accounts the password field is blank. So I filled them in the saved them. But on reopening the preferences the passwords are gone again. Please help as it's very frustrating. I started all this after a one-2-one training session in the Apple Store yesterday. Would love some help if anyone can spare the time. I'm not sure what I did but would love to undo it. Is there anyway I can go back?
Many thanks..
~RICKY

This looks like your keychain got corrupted somehow. Try usig the Keychain First Aid in Keychain Access.app

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