Undoing twin Mail account?

I was having trouble downloading messages from my university pop account after recently switching to a new machine and stupidly decided to create a new account with a different label but the same settings to see if there was some hidden problem.
When activated the new account started competing with the old one with neither working properly. When I tried to delete the new account I also lost all of the messages in the inbox from the old one. I was able to 'rebuild' the original account inbox once, but after I closed Mail and reopened it they seemed to be lost.
I do have a relatively recent time machine backup, so all will hopefully not be lost. But before messing things up any further I need some advice on how to get rid of the twin account without doing any unnecessary damage, and maybe how to proceed from there.
Thanks!

Hello Kenfromsk and MangoN,
I have managed to resolve the problem of not being able to received my AOL e-mail via Lion Mail.
It was quite drastic action so please save any e-mails that you have on the Mac rather on the e-mail server. All of mine are on AOL's server.
The solution I found was. Firstly shut down Mail then via Go to Home (in the drop down menu) then Library and find the Mail folder.
Deleted all the files within the Mail Folder that related to your e-mail provider, in my case AOL. Do not delete the Mail folder itself.
Once you have done this re-launch Mail and let the mail assistant take you through re-establishing your e-mail account.
It worked for me and I hope it does for you. Please let me know how you get on.
Best Regards,
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