Garbled messages in Mail.app (using Gmail IMAP)

Several of my archived messages in Gmail are displaying with garbled headers in Mail.app, which is configured to access my Gmail account via IMAP. Here's what the headers look like:
------=NextPart_000_001601CA70CE.4D0AAE80
+Content-Type: text/plain;+
charset="us-ascii"
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit+
And here's an excerpt from the body:
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEBLAEsAAD/4Q1RRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAACABJQBAABAAAAAQAAAGmHBAAB
AAAAJgAAAFIAAAABAIaSAgAaAAAAOAAAAAAAAABDcmVhdGVkIGJ5IEFjY3VTb2Z0IENvcnAuAAMA
KAEDAAEAAAACAAAAAQIEAAEAAAB8AAAAAgIEAAEAAADNDAAAAAAAAP/Y/+AAEEpGSUYAAQEBAAcA
BwAA/9sAQwAIBgYHBgUIBwcHCQkICgwUDQwLCwwZEhMPFB0aHx4dGhwcICQuJyAiLCMcHCg3KSww
MTQ0NB8nOT04MjwuMzQy/9sAQwEJCQkMCwwYDQ0YMiEcITIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIy
MjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIy/8AAEQgAYABdAwEiAAIRAQMRAf/EAB8AAAEFAQEB
Note that the message displays perfectly in Gmail on the web.

Yesterday I tried to move all my messages from Gmail to MobileMe to work around this. I created a new label "Archive" in Gmail web and marked all my mail in "All Mail" with this label so they would show up in IMAP. In Mail.app I disabled "Move messages to Trash" to avoid having them deleted.
Unfortunately I could not move my messages, around 1 out of 50 had the problem described above, so MobileMe did not allow me to upload them because of the missing headers. These were old messages, never opened by Mail.app earlier, and it was true that they missed some headers: they were exported from Outlook and Opera Mail years ago. But still they had all the header fields a mailer would display (To, From, Cc, Subject). Anyway the fact Mail.app cannot display these properly is perhaps acceptable in this case.
However the problem being unable to display certain recently received, archived messages on my Gmail account still applies. Those messages were not modified in any way, only Gmail and Mail.app were used to access them.
Needless to say, the old messages mentioned above that went through Outlook and Opera Mail look OK both on the web and in Thunderbird, too. At least I knew that I realized early that I could not move all messages this way to MobileMe. I am going to try moving my messages again with Thunderbird now.

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