Mail won't work properly HELP

The first person to sign in to my Mail account was not me.. from then i removed his account permanently (according to all instructions I found online) and added my own. I then started using it and people who were receiving my emails said that they were coming from his email address.
Tried everything I could to get rid of his email - there is now no trace of it in the preferences. So I tried to send a test email to check if I had gotten rid of it but a box keeps coming up asking me to reenter my password for my gmail account it says ' Enter password for account "Gmail" The SMPT server "smtp.gmail.com" rejected the password for user ...'.
I enter my password press enter and the box comes up again 2 seconds later.. again and again I have tried this and it keeps popping up and won't let me send any emails!
HELP

Reinstalling won't restore your data, regardless of whether you reinstall the whole system or just the Mail application. If you have no backup and the contents of HOME/Library/Mail/ have really vanished, there is nothing you can do to restore your mail data. What I don't understand is why Mail crashes upon start up if there is nothing in the Mail folder...
Did you repair the disk after the crash? I'm not talking about repairing permissions here, but rather about repairing the disk itself. If you did, and Mail still crashes after moving the com.apple.mail.plist file out of the HOME/Library/Preferences/ folder, post the relevant part of the crash report here, so I can try to figure out why Mail is crashing.
In order to do that, open /Applications/Utilities/Console, choose View > Show Log List, expand ~/Library/Logs, then CrashReporter, and select Mail.crash.log. The latest crash report should appear at the bottom of that file. Look for a line that begins with "Date/Time:" as close to the bottom as possible, and another that says "Thread N Crashed:", where N is a number. Select everything from the "Date/Time:" line to the lines immediately following "Thread N Crashed:". Copy that text and paste it here. Do not post the whole crash log, just the relevant lines. See the following two threads for examples of what a crash report looks like (the second has extra unnecessary information):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=439295
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=441465

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