Mail keeps trying to use .mac server - help

This concerns my mothers iMac that we just put a clean install of Panther on.
In mail, it attempts to use a .mac smtp server to send the mail. I went to preferences>accounts and even deleted the .mac smtp account. I left her Charter account there as the only account visible.
Still, mail attempts to send the emails using the .mac smtp server. An error window pops up asking to verify server info. We called Charter and all our information is correct for Mail. In the error window, the only server it gives us to select to send the mail is .mac smtp

You may have tried this already, but just in case :
If you go into your Mail preference/accounts settings again, and into "account information", can you see a box at the bottom marked "server settings " ?
If so, you should be able click it, and then delete or modify the smtp server(s).

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