Duplicate messages appear in Inbox

I've read all that I can find from other similar problems, but I've found none that describes my problem and none that identifies a (safe) solution.
This morning, on two independent computers (iMac G5 OSX 10.5.5 & MacBook 3.1 OSX 10.5.4) I received duplicate emails for every email in my Inbox for the preceding month, but not for today! That meant that my Inbox (on both computers) appeared to have over 1,000 unread emails.
There are no such duplicates on the server (bellsouth.net).
I've read about a Script that someone generously offered to "delete duplicate emails" but it apparently can cause more problems than it solves.
How did this happen?
How do I avoid it in the future?
How do I remove the duplicates on both computers?

Although I still do not know why the duplicates appeared or how to avoid it in the future, I found a fairly simple method to remove the duplicate emails FOR MY CASE. This may not work for others with similar, but different related problems.
Anyway, it appears that the "new" duplicate emails were assigned a new "number" and they are sequential. In menu select "View" then "Columns" then Number.
Then click on the "#" column to arrange the messages in order of their "Number."
Then find the range of numbers that encompass the offending and duplicate email messages. (My situation showed over 1,000 sequential messages).
Select one extreme end of the range (highlight it in the upper window). Scroll to the other end of the range of offending messages, hold down the "Shift" key to highlight all messages between the two extremes.
Then click on the "Delete" button.
Voila. It's like excising a tumor with good, clean margins.
In my case (and I hope yours), all of the duplicate messages are gone.

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