Strange e-mail Behavior

I have been experiencing a strange phenomenon with my Mail account, the nature of which is as follows. Whenever, I send an e-mail via my mail account using my Hotmail account the recipient gets the message, however, it states that the e-mail is coming from my wife’s Hotmail account instead of mine. It should be noted that the only similarity in both e-mail accounts is that they are Hotmail accounts. Any suggestion on what could be causing this strange phenomenon and how I can resolve same will be greatly appreciated.

Hello, do you & her share the same computer account?
Check Mail Preferences>Composing>Send messages from, & see if it's set to Send new messages from Last viewed account, or hers.

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Carolyn Samit wrote:
I'm running Safari 5.1 / SL v10.6.8 on one Mac with Glims installed and I never have a problem with tabs auto reloading. You might want to give it a try.
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