FTP Get File List Action Block, It's double listing files! ver 11.5

Hi guys.. I have a good one!   I have an FTP Get File List action block in my BLS transaction. Occasionally, it double lists the files in its output.   For testing I put a repeater with a logevent output where I log the filename, date, and size. Heres what I saw for my action block output.
2009-02-13 00:38:00,963 [UserEvent] : File Name: DMM_Export_0010056.txt, File Date 2009-02-13T00:36:00, File Size 339
2009-02-13 00:38:00,963 [UserEvent] : File Name: DMM_Export_0010056.txt, File Date 2009-02-13T00:36:00, File Size 339
This is xMII version 11.5.6 b73 with java 1.4.2_07
I have a workaround by putting in a distinct action block, after the filelist, but anybody have an idea why this might happen?   My theory is that something might be occuring if the file is being written to while we try to process it, but not sure.
I've been building BLS parsers since 2003, (Remember those fun times with Jeremy?)   I've never seen this happen.

My example is a sample log file before the distinct action. The general log shows nothing other than the subsequent transaction errors I get as a result of running the same error twice (Tcode return from BAPI calls etc)
Here is something else interesting.. my userlog file is acting funny, like its trying to write on top of itself. could it be the transaction is actually running twice or parts of it?
For example look at the following log entries
This is how my log file entry for a production confirmation should look
2009-02-13 00:38:06,854 [LHScheduler-Int10_NestingWOProdConf] INFO   UserLog - [UserEvent] :
However sometimes... its looking like this...
2009-02-13 2009-02-13 00:38:11,854 [LHScheduler-Int10_NestingWOProdConf] INFO   UserLog - [UserEvent] :
Like it started writing to the log, then started again.
The problem we are having is that we have JCO calls to SAP in this transaction that does goods movement, we get locking / block errors back from our saying that we (our sap account) is already updating the information.   Sometimes the information would be posted twice! You can see how this has become a HUGE issue posting data to a LIVE system twice.
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