Mail displaying wrong "to" address in list

MBP C2D w/ 3Gb RAM
OSX 10.4.11
Mail.app 2.1.1 (b752.3)
Mail.app started acting up on me in the last couple days, displaying seemingly random "to" addresses in the message list for my inbox.
Selecting a message shows the correct content in the main window, and the addresses that it's displaying appear NOWHERE in the "View -> Message -> Raw Source" content. I've rebuilt the folder (mailbox) but it doesn't help.
Has anybody seen this? Where is mail getting the setting for the "To" column???
Moving it to another "local" mailbox doesn't fix the name. It actually changes the name to another random email address (yes, they are recognizable to me, but they have nothing to do with the raw source of the email message).
I can screen-cap an example, if required.
TIA for any advice,
Steve
TIA, Steve

Try re-creating the entire index, as follows:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any “IMAP-”, “Mac-”, or “Exchange-” account folders to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all the mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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