After 10.8.4....imagent process memory leak

I upgraded my MBA to 10.8.4. I started getting messages that my startup memory was full. I take a peak at Activity monitor and "imagent" is using 6GB of RAM and my HD has dropped in available space almost 100GB!!!
I force quit the process and reboot to recover the space soaked up by the leak, but it keeps coming back. As soon as I hear my fans going crazy I look at activity monitor and yep its back again.
Any one else with this issue after 10.8.4? I see in the release notes it was supposed to fix the reording of the messages in "imagent" but at this point I'll take the reorder problem over this problem.

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