My Acount Settings & Preferences for Mail keep verting to previous settings

The references to my "Account Directory" show my previous e-mail settings-
/User/my name/Library/Mail/POP- old email address. When I try to change these settings to my new e-mail address it immediate activates an email but without a recipients name. When I deleted the reference to my previous
e-mail address settings it keeps returning the previous settings in the Library section. I have removed all references to my previous dial-up settings in the System Preferences-Network because I am now on broadband and have been for 2 years. When I deleted the POP references to my previous e-mail address I lost ALL my inbox and outbox e-mails that I had for the last two years. I am about to upgrade from Panther to Tiger shortly which means I will have new "Mail" software. Currently I have Mail 1.3.11
Is it better to remove this e-mail settings problem as above, first or hope the upgrade to Tiger will do it for me? I prefer to get rid of my previous e-mail settings first before upgrading to Tiger. Can somone help please?

As referenced when creating an account with Mail, an account named folder is created within the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail that is named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account. The accounts' mailboxes are located within the account named folder which represent the account named mailboxes under In, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk in the mailboxes drawer.
When changing the account settings for an existing account - the account's incoming mail server or email address, the name of the account named folder within the Mail folder does not change which has or should not have any adverse effect.
Deleting an email account with Mail also deletes the account named folder and the accounts' mailboxes within and an error message is provided before doing so that indicates this.
> When I try to change these settings to my new e-mail address it immediate activates an email but without a recipients name.
I haven't experienced the same or heard of this but you can't enter any recipients or cancel this new message that is created automatically?
> When I deleted the reference to my previous e-mail address settings it keeps returning the previous settings in the Library section.
This was before deleting the old account associated with the dial-up internet provider or did this also occur after deleting the dial-up account and recreating the account associated with the broadband provider?
> Is it better to remove this e-mail settings problem as above, first or hope the upgrade to Tiger will do it for me? I prefer to get rid of my previous e-mail settings first before upgrading to Tiger.
Upgrading to Tiger will not do this automatically but besides the name of the account named folder within the Mail folder, are there any problems associated with this?

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