Mail Duplicates IMAP account Snow Leopard

Hey everyone-
I'm getting duplicate emails on an IMAP account- I know there is another post about this issue, but it seems to mostly pertain to POP emails, but nothing I've read or seen on this forum or any other has yet helped me. Also I don't know if my situation is exactly the same as the others. I will try to include all factors that may (or may not) be relevant.
-Model and OS, you can see in my signature line.
-IMAP email account that worked previously in Leopard. Also, this email account works perfectly on wife's macbook using the exact same settings. This account works on iPhone 3GS, on Thunderbird for XP and Outlook for XP. Further, this email account works on a seperate user account I created on my MBP just to test Mail.
-When I try to mark the duplicate emails as "read" from within Mail, there is a squiggly upward arrow that appears next to the message-I'm assuming Mail is trying to tell me something-anybody know what?
-I have done the following with no result: deleted cache, verified/repaired disk permissions, deleted and added mail account (multiple times, including Library files related to this account), restarted in "safe" then restarted again (per Apple tech support), and reinstalled Mail directly from SL disk (again multiple times).
-Since I'm beginning to think its related to my specific user account, it may also matter that this user account has been migrated from iBook G4 12" 1.33 Tiger, then to this MBP Leopard when it had a 200GB HDD, upgraded to SL, then again to the 500GB HDD.
I'm at my wit's end. Willing to take any measure, including completely removing Mail itself. Every mail account I use is IMAP or Exchange, it would be a pain to have to put them all back on (I use like 6 emails accounts), but anything to get Mail working again.
Peace
Curtis

I should also mention deleting preferences files, and that this is NOT a gmail account.

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