Mail will not stay as default email reader

I have the mysterious problem facing a computer newly installed MacBook Air 2012 with 10.8.2. It has Parallels, MS Office 2011, but no MS Mail Application.
I have another account on this computer that is not affected by this issue.
The issue is that the default email reader is set to "Narrator". When I change it to Mail 6.2, the setting takes until I close Mail. When I reopen Mail, Narrator shows again as the default reader. When I click on a mail link in Safari, Mail opens.
There is no evident preference or preference pane file for Mail in the Library. I was looking to compare the preference file with one of a computer I setup in parallel.
How do I find the preference plist file for Mail?
I setup all my accounts through "Mail, Contacts, and Calendar" so I think Apple is storing this configuration information elsewhere.

Never mind. It went away aftrer reboot.
Still don't know where the plist is for Mail though.

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or if you want a different log.
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raelibark wrote:
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1. (Optional, but recommended). Assuming this is a POP account, in the Finder go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/INBOX.mbox/Messages/, and identify the *.emlx files associated with the troublesome messages. Viewing the *.emlx files as List in the Finder showing the creation/modification date may help. Just identify them; do not get rid of them yet (you must quit Mail first).
2. Quit Mail.
3. (Optional, but recommended). Move to the Trash the troublesome *.emlx files found in step 1.
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6. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/. Locate Deleted Messages.mbox, and move it to the Trash. I assume there is nothing to be preserved there.
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Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

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