Mac Mail Mystery - Need Help!

Hey there!
I am running Mac OS X version 10.5.8 and Mail version 3.6 (936).
I noticed this morning that some of my emails are showing content and a subject line of completely different emails from over a year ago. Has anyone else experienced this and if so is there a way to fix this so my emails show the actual email and not an email from a different sender that is totally unrelated?
I can check the email via Webmail and all is fine. It seems that with this email account something weird is happening in Mail.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

You might try the Rebuild option from Mailbox for the affected Mailbox in the MenuBar. I'd make a backup copy of the entire Mail Folder first. It's in your User/Library/Mail. Option- drag it to the Desktop.
If a number of Mailboxes appear to be affected, you can rebuild each of them separately or quit Mail, drag the file "Envelope Index" to the Desktop and reopen Mail. This will rebuild all.

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