Drafts are Disappearing from Apple Mail Drafts Folder

I am using Apple Mail wil my Mobile Me and an IMAP Gmail account.
I create, save and close a draft and it then disappears from my Drafts folder with no sign of it anywhere. To date I have lost many emails and countless hours of work rewriting emails. This is more than frustrating.
Is there a way to recover these missing drafts?
How can I stop this from happening in the future?

Same issue.
Any resulotion yet?
This is happening with my 4S - never was a problem with 3G.

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