Mail App Stalls with iMap Connection

Hello-
I have had problems in both 10.5 and 10.6 using the Mail app with an iMap account. Here are some of the symptoms:
- The Activity Window says "Received 24 of 25 headers" under "Updating Cache Directory" and never finishes.
- The Activity window occasionally says "Downloading x,xxx,xxx Messages" when there is none to be downloaded. This also stalls out and never seems to finish.
- Finally, quite often Mail takes a long time to fetch and/or connect to get the messages. I know this could be due to my internet connection (or the email server speed), but I can't help but wonder if it is tied in with the issues mentioned above.
The only way I can fix them is to quit and restart Mail. Then everything acts normally for a period of time. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated!

Same thing here... Getting truly tiresome. Any help would be appreciated!

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