IMAP Mail - double messages

Hi,
For the most part, Mail on my iPhone seems to be working great. However, on one of the IMAP accounts that I have configured for e-mail, I sometimes get the same message twice on my iPhone, but if I check that same e-mail account through their web interface (it's an AIM account), the message only appears once. On the iPhone, if I reply to either occurrence of the double-message, it shows as having replied to both occurrences. What makes this more inconvenient is that if I try to delete one of the double occurrences, it deletes both of them. This problem only seems to happen on the iPhone - the same account works fine through both the web interface AND through Apple Mail on my Mac, just not on my iPhone. Any suggestions?

Even if you have already deleted the email account(s) on the iPhone, do so once more and set your AIM email account again. If you still get double messages, check the email settings with your AIM account, look for any settings that may be triggering the double emails.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305882

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