Outgoing mail server won't save

Just updated to cable modem and new provider. In Mail, Preferences I reset my Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) with the settings from my new provider. This server is the only one in the list and I checked the box "Use only this server."
However, at least three times a day for the last couple days since I set this up, I am unable to send a message. This is not always when I restart Mail; it has happened when Mail has been open and I have already sent something.
The error message asks me to select a server. When I look at the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) section in Account Information, it is set to None.  If I go in and reset it, the system prompts me to save it, and I can send that message (and many after it). But this has happened several times; it seems to occasionally forget that I selected this server. I am not sure what else to do.
OS X 10.7.3
Mail 5.2
Advice eagerly sought...

My problem is similar.  Every so often (random, no pattern) out of the blue the SMTP server is forgotten. I don't have multiple outgoing servers, so it just asks me 'which one' I want to use.  And of course there's only one listed, so I use that, and it sends just fine.  WHY does it keep forgetting to use the one server I have listed?  Makes no sense.

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