Mail: Certain emails grayed out, can't delete them

Strange one...
Mail version 3.6 running on a PPC Quad, OSX 10.5.8
A while ago I had a convoluted situation where I was receiving emails from two different mail servers, both of which had my email address registered with them (don't ask! ) so for a while I was receiving two copies of each email. After resolving the situation with the ISP's I deleted the account in Mail that was receiving mail from one of them. What I was left with was a strange situation where all of the duplicate messages remained on my system but don't seem to be associated with an email account. When I attempt to open a duplicate email, the message window is completely blank. And when I try to delete a duplicate, the message grays out. Can't be deleted.
I want to migrate the mailboxes on this older system to my new MacPro, but I'd like to clean up this mess before I do. Any advice on how to permanently delete these phantom emails would be most appreciated!
Thanks.

Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
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Reboot.
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