Multiple Duplicate Mailboxes in Sidebar!!

Hi.
Anyone seen this one?
After installing Leopard, in addition to Mail hanging up on quitting, I now have 15 duplicate, inactive mailboxes on the Mail sidebar. Because they're inactive, I can't highlight them to delete them, they stay grayed out and they just sit there doing nothing.
Any similar stories or advice?
Thanks!

5 have now managed to rid the sidebar of my ghost/duplicate account and mailboxes. I moved everything I might want out of my inbox into other folders and backed everything up in case. Under accounts I had one .Mac and one with my full .mac email address with identical details. I deleted the .Mac account (which I think I may have added during the upgrade unintentionally when prompted as the upgrade did not seem to realise I already had a .Mac account). I then renamed my email account as .Mac.
Then I expanded one of my ghost accounts and deleted individual folders. As I deleted it from one so it vanished from all the other ghost accounts until they were all gone. The ghost account vanished as well and I am pretty much back to where I was with 10.4
Many of these steps may be unnecessary but it worked for me. Although I did not lose any mail I would strongly recommend backing up first.

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