How do I stop Lion Mail from "changing flags?"

I noticed that the new Lion Mail (5) gets hung up. When I check the activity pane, it always says "Changing Flags." Clicking the stop sign icon will stop this temporarily, but every few hours Mail gets hung up on this again.
Any idea what's going on?

Hi Douglass,
You will need to navigate to the following folder.
/Users/yourusername/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
and backup the following file... MessageRules.plist
Open the file in BBedit to confirm your rules are infact inside that particular plist file as Mail will also create backups occasionally.
Once you reinstall, do a compare/replace with the newly created MessageRules.plist and you should be able to bring your "old" rules into your fresh install.
as for mailboxes, those are contained within this folder
/Users/yourusername/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes
and it will be up to you to backup those files and File/Import Mailboxes them into the new install.

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