IMAP Keeps Setting mail read status to unread

Hi,
This problem has only just started today. Everytime I start email and sync my imap accounts the status of the messages in the mailbox being synced change from read to unread. Every one and every time.
Very odd.

Hi pterobyte
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it seem to do nothing. My email keeps on saying everything is unread (on the server). Oddly this is only for one of the server imap accounts. not all of them. I did repair the DB and reconstruct my imap on the Server Admin. I think these problems came after that (might be wrong though).
I run three Macs and all them are having this problem. Is it likely that all three clients are wacked? (They all use isync).
Thanks.
IMAP output on Server Admin:
Feb 21 11:23:24 Estate-Server imaps[30988]: IOERROR: stating /var/imap/user/f/francishampden.seen: No such file or directory
Feb 21 11:23:24 Estate-Server imaps[30988]: DBERROR: error fetching txn cyrusdb error
Feb 21 11:23:24 Estate-Server imaps[30988]: Could not open seen state for francishampden (System I/O error)
Feb 21 11:31:44 Estate-Server imaps[30988]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Message was edited by: Frando

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