jellyblu, you say:
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Deleted it; asked someone to sign in and out with their older email address; signed out myself, shut down the application completely, relaunched and signed in again
This suggest to me that you did the deleting (and maybe registry key removing) while Messenger was running. You are supposed to do it when Messenger is completely closed (right click on tray icon > choose exit)... See if that helps in case you didn't