The On My Mac mailboxes greyed out

Recently I was having trouble with sending out emails from a couple of my accounts which use the same server, so I did all the usual stuff: repaired permissions, did a PRAM, deleted and re-created accounts, etc. Finally I trashed the old .plist and started over with Mail. Had no problems setting up the accounts again but now my On My Mac is greyed out and so is the RSS. When I click on add new mailbox I can see the list of my former maiboxes. How do I restore everything?

I don't see a way to edit my posts so I'm adding a second one to fill in some specifics. The machine in question is a year-and-a-half year-old 17" MacBook Pro with 3 GB RAM and it is fully up to date with software updates. I also have a 15" MBP, Mac Pro and the MacBook Air. Mail works fine on all of them.

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