Junk "mailbox" keeps appearing in Mac Mail 3.6 (OSX 10.5.8) Any ideas???

Hello all. I am a MobileMe user, synced mail between 2 macs, iPhone, & iPad. In my Mac Mail prefs I have I DO NOT have junk mail filtering checked, I want everything (spam or not) to go to my inbox. There is no junk mail brown paper bag icon on my sidebar. The problem is every once and a while an email will come through and there will then be a folder(mailbox) created called "junk" and that email will show up in that mailbox, that I did not create. I can read the mail, delete it, or do whatever I need to do with it, then delete this "junk" mailbox from my sidebar, but then it might happen again the following week, or not for several months.
Kinda frustrating since it should be set up to put everything in my inbox regardless of sender. Why does my system automatically create this mailbox?
Again there is no brown paper bag on my sidebar, Mac Mail just creates this junk mailbox that shows up right along with my other .mac mailboxes.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Steve

This happens to me too, usually only when I log into my mobileme account via a web browser (which I rarely do), but just a few minutes ago it happened spontaneously when Apple thought some legit mail was junk.
I also sync between two macs and an iPhone (no iPad), and I have junk mail turned off wherever possible (can't find a "turn off junk" option on the iPhone). One other thing, along with a junk folder, I also get a deleted messages and a drafts folder. After checking to make sure they are all empty, I just delete them on whichever mac I am using.
Looks like there is a bug in Apple's software where in some cases they ignore the settings in preferences, then they see that there are not folders that they deem are necessary so they create them for you.
I've tried a few different ideas on how to deal with this, mostly by turning on junk mail and making some rules to put everything in my inbox, but none of them worked well. I think we'll just have to live with this bug. I've seen lots of postings on problems with junk mail for years now, and Apple doesn't seem to be doing anything about it.

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