"Default email reader" shows 2 versions of Mail.app

If I got to Preferences in Mail.app, the first drop down to select the "Default email reader" shows 2 versions of Mail to choose from: 2.1.1 & 3.0
Any ideas why that is or how to remove the 2.1.1? Whenever I chose 3.0 and close the prefs and then open them again, it stays selection on 2.1.1

Just discovered this on my Default Apps as well - though not just with Mail.
I have apparently got Mail 2.1.1 and four (4) versions of Mail 3.0 in this menu. Also - four versions of Safari 3.0.4, one of 2.0.4, as well as five versions of Firefox 2.0.8 and one version of 2.0.7.
It also things I have multiple numbered versions of Fetch, and VLC.
Not sure what is going on with that, or why it's happening. I am having trouble with my Mail.app preferences repeatedly changing after I sync my machines across .mac. I'm wondering if this is another symptom and/or part of the problem.

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