Damaged Index in Mail

A client of mine has been having a problem that started a couple of weeks ago. His Mail program will seemingly randomly pop up a message saying:
"Your Mail index has been damaged. To repair it, quit Mail.
Mail will repair the index the next time you open the application. Your mailboxes and email messages will be preserved."
He OK's this, Mail goes through a 5 minute re-indexing process, and then everything is fine for a while, but this will happen again sometimes rather quickly, other times after a day or so.
Is there a way to completely get rid of the indexing to force Mail to create a new one rather than "repair" it, or is repair basically doing the same thing?
In case it matters, this user is in a client/server situation, although the mail is not being handled by the OS X Server. Just the user account is hosted on a server. But all users just run and handle Mail locally on their machines (but obviously the database is stored in the users folder on the server).
PowerMac G5 Dual 2GH Mac OS X (10.4.7)

If this keeps happening repeatedly, someone should verify/repair the disk there (not permissions), in case there is some filesystem corruption.
The procedure to manually re-create the index (after having fixed all filesystem issues, if any), would be as follows, but I’m not positive doing this manually will actually solve the problem:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index -- Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

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I haven't tried a reboot since the latest deletes, but seeing the same messages flowing in the logs does not give me much hope.
It may be possible that 1 or 2 bad emails are causing all the trouble, but I am at a loss to find them.
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Most mail ends up in folders ON MY MAC.
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Do not have extra folders on the servers with any of the IMAP accounts.
It is about time I archive some of the older messages, and that may help, but it will take me a while to get to that, and then flush the messages.
Problem occurred after update to Lion.
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Anyone have any other ideas?

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The problem was not with Apple Mail.app as it seemed, but actually with Mailsmith.app.
I use it for a number of mail accounts that I want to handle separately from my other mail accounts.
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That is what was causing the problem for me.
Some users remove that section from the application, or do as I did -
Set the folders for Mailsmith mail for privacy in Spotlight.
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