Mail gets 'stuck' doing a send & receive

Hi,
Since upgrading to Mac OS 10.6.5, Mail regularly gets 'stuck' doing a send and receive. I have three IMAP mail accounts in Mail: one MobileMe and two GMail. I can't send any mail (messages get stuck in the Outbox). No new mail comes in. I can't Quit Mail. I can only Force Quit Mail (although the Force Quit app does NOT say that Mail is not responding - it thinks everything is OK). I use three Mail plugins: MailActOn, MailTags and Mail Attachments Iconizer. Neither restarting Mail or restarting my Mac helps - Mail just gets stuck again. I know it's an issue with the Mail software because other clients (e.g. Mail on iPhone and iPad) access my IMAP mailboxes just fine.
Here are some screenshots...
First, the Inbox and Sent folders have a continuously spinning wheel:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/310720/spinning.jpg
Second, when I open Mail's Activity Viewer, you can see a whole heap of frozen processes (if I click any of the red "stop signs", they won't stop):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/310720/activity.jpg
Does anyone have any tips?
Thanks,
Greg

After analysing Mail's Activity Viewer messages I thought perhaps Mail was getting stuck when downloading messages from my two POP accounts. I logged into both accounts via webmail and deleted the messages in there. Volia! Mail is now unstuck. This is clearly a serious bug in the program - why should a problem with messages in POP mailboxes cause the entire application (and all IMAP accounts) to freeze?
Cheers,
Greg

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