Duplicate email messages

Messages are coming into my inbox in duplicate. I've read requests from others on this problem but haven't found a solution. Can you help me?

It's a POP account. As far as I know I don't have any other devices synching. I just have an iPod Touch that does synch with iTunes and accesses email from my gmail account online but these emails don't come to my inbox. Don't think I have any rules set up. When I looked at Rules only "News from Apples" was checked. I unchecked it but I'm still getting 2 of everything in my inbox. The problem seems to be getting worse -- no all messages are duplicated whereas before only some were.
When I started this discussion I thought I was using Leopard but remembered that I upgraded to Snow Leopard a few months ago. The problem seems to have started then (or when I synched my iPod). I have 2 discussions going on this, one here and one under Snow Leopard.
This is taxing my capabilities at the computer and I'm very frustrated! I really appreciate you trying to help!

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