Why does Mail behave like this?

More often than not, when I try to either respond to an email, or generate a new one, Mail just hangs. It will continue to do this until either 1) it finally gives up and says to select another server, or 2) I quit Mail, then open it again, at which point the outgoing mail swooshes away like it should have the first time. I would say this happens 8 out of 10 times.
The other thing that's driving me nuts is servers I have deleted from the server list keep coming back. I've tried repairing permissions right after deletion, but that doesn't help.
These two issues come together when I let Mail continue to try to send while it hangs, then it pops up and tells me it can't do it with that server, try another... and the servers I've deleted are back on the list again; sometimes, Mail has tried to use one of the re-appearing servers, or it'll offer one of them as an option.
THis is maddening. Anyone have an idea how I can get these things to stop?

Hi Dave, missed this apparently, thanks for bumping it up again.
On the Mail problem, Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
On the Server issue, are they listed in Accounts>Login Items, or set to Automount?

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