Mail preferences resetting or glitch?!

We just switched my wife from Entourage to Mail in Leopard and some of the preferences keep resetting. The most annoying is "Send mail from:" in the Compose tab keeps resetting to "last used account" instead of one particular account that we have selected 3 TIMES! The other issue was that even though we had left checked "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message:" in the Advanced tab of the Accounts window in preferences. It resulted in her main mail server maxing out and bouncing back new messages today. Has this happened to anyone else? Another factor might have been that we just added a .Mac account to her mail accounts to try and back some of her stuff up to .Mac. Very frustrating...

Not answered, just wanted to get this off my unresolved question list.

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