Mail: lock folders to prevent dragging?

My elderly father often accidentally drags Mail folders onto each other, nesting them.
Is there a way to lock the structure of Mail folders, like one can lock the Dock? (Same problem happened there; locking fixed it.)
Running Apple Mail, current version, on Snow Leopard.
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