Making Apple Mail the default mail program

thank you in advance for help on this question. When in Address Book, I click on the email address of a contact and it launches Entourage as the default mail application to send the message. I would like to change settings so the Apple Mail is the default mail app for this and all other email tasks. Can you help?

The following comment applies to those who are switching to Mail from another email client.
In Eudora there is also a preference to set Eudora as your default emailer. In other words, not only do you need to change that pref in Mail (to "use Mail as the default emailer"), but you have to go to Eudora and change its pref to say "use [Apple] Mail as the default mailer". Otherwise you get battling email programs and unpredictable results when clicking on mailto links in other programs.
I don't remember if the same applies to Entourage or other mail clients.

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hmmm.. I've been complaining about this to the engineers for over a year. The storage location should be chooseable as should there also be a backup feature (as in Addressbook and iCal).
for those that want to change this... it would be cool for someone to write a non cryptic, complete 1,2,3 stepped procedure.
That is.. exactly what do you change to what in the mail user preference file? And what do you use to change it.. text edit? "[ ]" heretofor = folder
I would like to change my Mail storage location to the my [Documents] . Using Text Edit, I went into my user [Library], to [Preferences] and opened the com.apple.mail.plist and changed all the ~/Library/mail storage locations to ~/Documents/Mail
lastly I moved the [Mail] that was in the [Library] to my [Documents].
Didn't work. Restarting Mail got me into the guided set a new account (and as far as I can see there IS no way of not taking the guided set up as alledged above). There must be something, some built-in direction other than in the [Preferences] defaulting mail to be saved in the [Library] folder
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