Can't Delete Mail Messages

2 weeks ago, I was forced to do an erase and install of Leopard because of a corruption in my systems file. So, I had to re-setup Mail.app. I use an imap account for most of my email.
Everything seemed to be working fine until a couple of days ago, I tried to delete an email and got the following message: "The message could not be moved to the mailbox “(null)”. The destination mailbox “(null)” does not allow messages to be moved to it."
Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it.
Thanks,
Jesse

Do you have an IMAP account set up on your Mail app? If so, try deactivating the "store deleted messages on server" checkbox. It can be found in the Account Preferences, under the Mailbox Behaviors tab.

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