After 10.5.6 Update - Mail & Gmail (imap) not syncing correctly

After updating to 10.5.6, Mail is not syncing with my Gmail (imap) accounts correctly. For example, I will receive an email and have notifications both in Mail and my iPhone. If I read the email from my iPhone, Mail will not show the email has been read or deleted unless I quit and reopen. Gmail does, however, show the email as read or deleted almost immediately. Manually syncing Mail with an account doesn't work. Only quitting and reopening Mail. Any suggestions?

That's a shame. Did you read earlier:
ERNIE STAMPER wrote:
No problem with Gmail IMAP account here, although not using with an iPhone. Are you accessing your Gmail account from Mail as an IMAP type account?
Also, in some other discussion, I read that someone trashed their "com.apple.mail.plist" in their home/library/preferences folder and restarted
mail and it was successful, including each message where they were supposed to be.
I try and find that link.
FOUND THE LINK:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8697858#8697858
(whilst it was about force quitting, it may be related - decide for yourself)
JOESWELL wrote:
...in essence, the last post is: I solved the problem by dumb luck. I ended up >"googling" - "10.5.6 Mail" and located a another discussion about this issue.
http://www.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/458596
ReMacBook_issues_afterupgrad
One of the "fixes" offered was to delete the file "com.apple.mail.plist." I >deleted the file, and mail opened up correctly and worked perfectly. All my >daughter's folders, emails, etc were all there as before.
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