OS X Mail Replying from Wrong Address

Clean install of OS X Mavericks, with multiple accounts in Mail (one iCloud, several Gmail).
When I reply to an email sent to one of my GMail accounts, Mail always uses my iCloud account as the "From" address, and there doesn't seem to be any sane way to change this. The only option I can find related to this is the "Send new message from.." preference, which shouldn't be applicable as this is a *reply*, not a new message. I would have expected Mail to default the From address to match the address to which the original mail was sent (or at least to offer this option). But it doesnt, or at least I can't find a way to do this.
Any ideas? Seems like an obvious need, and I'm getting very fruistrated with Mail trying to give everybody my iCloud email (which I keep for private correspondance).
--TIm

I think I've fixed the problem of sending an email from one account, but the replies coming back to another email account. Here are the 3 possible steps to fix the problem.
1) Go to Mail-->Preferences-->General and set "If outgoing server is unavailable" to "Automatically try sending later"
2) Mail-->Preferences-->Accounts--Account Information, for each account check the box the says "Use only this server"
3) Mail-->Preferences-->Accounts-->Account Information, look for the drop list at the bottom labelled "Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)". Click on the droplist and select the bottom item, "Edit SMTP Server List". Click on the Advanced tab. Check if your Authentication is set to "Password." Then make sure that the bottom Password box is filled in. (This is what was missing on the email accounts I started having trouble with. I don't know how they had disappeared, as it had been filled in before, but the missing passwords were my problem.) You need to do this for every email account to make sure the authentications are correct. You will be asked to save each change.
When finished, close out of Mail and restart.
I hope this helps!

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