Mail displaying incorrect messages

I have an odd problem that has suddenly appeared within the last couple days. I use mail with my .mac email address and have so for many years now. As of the other day when I receive a new email some of them will display incorrectly: ie the message might be Joe Public News Alert or whatever, but when I click on that to view the email it shows an email from a June of last year, different sender, different subject line etc. When I go onto my iPhone or onto MobileMe it displays the same list of received emails, but when I click on the emails in question to view them, the correct messages are shown. I tried quitting mail, restarting my computer, doing updates and everything else like that, but the problem persists, and it persists consistently, as in no matter what I do, when I click on the News Alert, instead of seeing the correct email I will consistently see the same incorrect email.
Any thoughts?

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