On 08/06/2005, at 4:38 PM, Severin Crisp in WAMUG Digest 682 wrote:

Is there a setting to force the selection of "New" come up
with a selected account.  It invariably comes up with the one I least
want and this causes confusion if I forget to change it.

Howdy Severin,

No default account for 10.3.9 ( I have been tracking this one because I've a formal and a family account which I, too, dislike conflating)

If 10.4 hasn't produced a default account setting, then this thread in the apple fora may be useful:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.68ad454a

Nancy M