Ghost duplicates in Mail

Hi all,
I have this annoying problem. When I search for mail I get results that show ghost duplicates of the same mail. It show the header but cannot be seen. Is it possible to get rid of this extra mail (ghost duplicates).

A workaround that uses Spotlight instead of the db of TO/FROM addresses (the "Envelope Index") is to use Spotlight qualifiers.
Mail.app's search is more advanced than it appears. It seems that you can structure searches using fields...
keyword1 from:some_user subject:some_word
...to search for all messages that match keyword1 in the entire message that are from some_user and have some_word in the subject. It seems that the search box is completely mimicking Spotlight, which gives the power of Spotlight searches inside of Mail.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071121105941992
http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/12/06/smarter-searches-in-leopard-mail/

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