Leopard Mail rules change by themselves?

Hi Guys,
Got a bit of a strange one here, recently i did a complete clean of my Mail app on Leopard (ie backup, reset all prefs, files, folders, settings the lot). Then i set it up again and everything works great.
Apart from one thing, i have one imap account on which rules are performed (ie separation into folders and creating a local copy on a local folder for backup). However although these rules work fine, sporadically the folder location for the copy gets set to the original imap folder - so it ends up making copies of the email in the same folder.
When i manually correct this in the rules settings, it works for a while again, then does the same.
At first i thought it was getting confused because the Local folder is called the same as the online imap one (equivalent naming), so i changed the local folder name by appending a -OL (as in offline) suffix. However that did not correct the problem.
Any idea what could be changing the rules? Because it isnt me

Ok, here are some images:
1) Rule example, for Subscriptions, as it should be: http://www.definiteuncertainty.com/img/Subs-RuleOK.png
2) Pref file, displaying rule, as it should be: http://www.definiteuncertainty.com/img/SubsRule_PrefsOK.png
3) what rule looks like, after quit mail then open again: http://www.definiteuncertainty.com/img/Subs_RuleFAIL.png
4) Note that all this while the pref file is the same. Eventually, it changes too, but thats once its been open and closed a few times, i think - if i keep it open, then it stays the same, but the in mail the rules still fail

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