Duplicate todos in Mail.app

Hi,
My todos have recently started duplicating themselves inside Mail.app (strangely there are no duplicates in iCal!). Can anyone suggest why this might be happening? I have an iPhone syncing 'over the air' with MobileMe. I don't have any other syncing active that I know of. I'd appreciate any ideas.
Cheers,
Greg

This has been happening to me, too. I hate it. I have no idea how to solve the issue. I've tried unsyncing and resyncing the computer; I've tried deleting my iCal, and restoring from MobileMe; I've tried deleting the extras by going to iCal, checking the active todos, and then deleting the unchecked ones from Mail (and then unchecking them again in iCal). It's a mess.

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