My phone won't stop trying to send iMessages to a Blackberry user

My friend experimented with the iPhone 4S, but returned it a week later for another Blackberry. Now my iPhone won't stop trying to send him iMessages. I've tried deleting his contact info (from everywhere, including the iCloud), and re-entering it. I've also tried deleting all previous text/iMessage conversations with him. Restoring, resetting, etc. Nothing has worked. Any thoughts/suggestions?

You don't have much choice, do you? You're either going to have to restore the software or take it to the Genius Bar to see about getting that button fixed.

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Any message that isn't successfully sent remains in the Outbox mailbox and this is why the Mail.app continues to try to send it when re-launched.
With the Mail.app quit and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail > Mailboxes > Outbox.mbox.
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