Mail sometimes takes a very, very long time to open messages

This is similar to some other messages I've seen here, but I perhaps have some new observations.
Often, but not always, Mail takes up to 120 seconds to open each message in my Inbox. This happens with messages that have already been downloaded from the server, and even with messages that have already been read previously. While opening a message, Mail is otherwise unresponsive and spinning the ol' beachball cursor.
When this happens, the system.log on the Console displays these lines. Mail is process 4502 in this example.
Jan 19 08:20:23: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jan 19 08:20:23 Juliette /usr/sbin/spindump[4552]: process 4502 is being monitored
Jan 19 08:20:28 Juliette kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jan 19 08:20:28 Juliette kernel[0]:
Jan 19 08:20:37: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jan 19 08:20:37 Juliette kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jan 19 08:20:37 Juliette kernel[0]:
The last three lines are then repeated every 10 seconds until the message is finally displayed at which time spindump reports that it spindump is no longer monitoring process 4502 (or whatever number Mail happens to be). The time required to sort itself out is variable, from 30 to 120 seconds.
I ran Verify on my disk and there were no errors of any kind. I have also checked and corrected permissions on the disk a couple of times.
If I run Mail>Mailbox>Rebuild the problem is cleared up (for a while), but eventually returns. The problem is cleared up only on the Inbox on which I ran Rebuild. There may be a global rebuild somewhere, but I haven't found it.
I have also noticed that after running Rebuild when the problem is occurring, a mailbox will contain one more unopened message than it did before Rebuild-ing, i.e. If there were no unopened messages, there will now be 1, or if there were 6 unopened messages, there will now be 7. And the new unopened message is at some seemingly random place in the message list. I can't say that this happens every time, but I have not seen it not happen.
I'm not really qualified to make a diagnosis of this, but, nevertheless, I will venture a guess that my local mail database is somehow getting corrupted, or possibly is permanently corrupted, in some minor way. Assuming that might be true, is there a way to rebuild my entire mail database? It's fairly large, about 600 Mbytes.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

Update: I found out how to re-index my mail database (in the Mail Help, duh) and this may have fixed the problem. At least I haven't seen it since. I'll post a final report at the end of the day.

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