Mail erases old messages - imports duplicates

The mail app. on one of my computers (a G4 running OSX 10.2.8) keeps giving me trouble. It will suddenly delete all emails in my inbox and sometimes it imports duplicate copies of emails (could be up to 500 emails at a time). I have the "remove email from server upon downloading" option checked. Any ideas what could be causing this?
G4 desktop Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Rebuilding the mailbox fixed it (I hope!)

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