Leopard Mail is stuck in an infinte loop, crashing, while syncing over IMAP

I'm trying to setup an IMAP account on Mail in Leopard.
Didn't realise it was going to be so painful
I set up the basic IMAP account OK, and can send and receive emails.
Now I'm trying to copy over my existing mailboxes so that they're on the IMAP server.
I'm carefully moving about 50 messages at a time from a folder 'On my Mac' into an IMAP folder.
One of the messages was 10MB in size, and I realised this wasn't a great idea. So during the upload, I clicked the little 'cancel' X in the progress bar.
That seemed to work OK, and I carried on for 10 min or so, but now Mail is suddenly caught in an infinite loop.
I get repeated warning messages saying:
"Some actions were taken while the account was offline could not be completed". It seems to be still trying to copy the 10MB email message, and I get more and more copies of that message appearing in a temporary local folder. Then Mail just crashes.
Each time I open mail, it's the same, thing. A few warning messages, then crash. So I'm stuck in an infinite loop.
Be warned people: IMAP over Mail is still pretty buggy.

This forum is for troubleshooting Mail under Mac OS 10.4 Tiger, not Leopard. You'll probably want to post your question in the Leopard Mail discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1223

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