Mail not remembering Account Passwords

Sorry to add to the list of things not working, but...
My Mail doesn't seem to want to save it's passwords. I keep having to re-enter them each time I reopen Mail.
I've checked Keychain Access and it doesn't seem to be the cause of the problem, even tried repairing it to no avail.
Anyone else having this trouble?

So I tried all the keychain stuff, loaded the new 1.0 patch, ran permissions and disk repair from the install CD and still... I have tried deleting mail accounts and adding them back, it asks for passwords and all but does not retain them. HOWEVER, in my non-administrator account I can create and save mail settings and passwords just fine, and on my G4 Powerbook when I loaded 10.5 it kept the passwords and works fine.
I thought for a bit maybe there were regional versions of this software and the problem could be in one of those. I live in Northern Wisconsin and am using Snow Leopard... :o)

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