Duplicate Mailboxes Appearing in Junk Mailbox

Hi,
So, I typically have all my saved email messages organized into mailboxes. Well, yesterday, for some reason, Mail decided to make a duplicate of all those mailboxes and stick them in my junk mailbox where they cannot be removed or relocated. So now I have duplicates of every mailbox I've ever created, and when I try to delete any of them, it deletes both copies. This is super frustrating and came out of left field. Any ideas on how to remedy this would be greatly appreciated.
Thx!

My mother is having the exact same problem and I'm trying to get her all sorted from moving from an old iMac to a new Intel Dual Core. My father, without her permission, upgraded her rig to Leopard. She's not happy. Anyway, mail is acting very odd with the duplicated folders in the junk folder. I can't figure this out either.
In addition, every time I try and repair disk permissions I get literally hundreds of lines of repairs. Mostly "ACL found but not expected on 'system/library/user template/....." and then some series of languages.
I'd love to get this issue squared away before I go home to Vancouver. Any ideas anyone?
Message was edited by: Paul Whishaw1

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