POP3 accounts and sent mail

Bit of a strange one here, so please bear with me ...
I am currently working with a guy who has two machines:
1 - G4 PowerBook running on OS X 10.3.9, using Mail 1.3.11
2 - G5 MacBook Pro running on OS X 10.5.2, using Mail 3.2
The G4 is his old machine which he used for everything, then got the G5 and moved everything on to there. Now I'm here, I use the G5 and he goes back to the G4.
The issue we're having is that he has the same email accounts set up on both machines, using POP3. Both have, as far as I can see, the same settings. Everything works fine on the G5, however all of the sent messages on the G4 (even older ones before the G5 came along) will not show and have the message:
+"The message from xxx@xxx <xxx@xxx> concerning "Subject" has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."+
Obviously the xxx is to hide his details.
Any idea why this is and how we can rectify it? His account is online as he receives and sends email through it.
Thoughts?

FYI... G5 was an IBM chip, no Laptops had them, if it is an MBP, it has Intel chips in it!
My best guess is that at one time, the G4 was set to leave the mail on the server, but since, it has been downloaded or removed by the other same account on the MBP.

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