Mail has random messages appearing in trash

The problem I found is a serious bug that I've had for a long time. On occasion, I'd go to the trash and find random messages I'd never deleted in there. Sometimes rebuilding the trash mailbox would make it go away, sometimes it wouldn't. If it didn't, I'd simply empty the trash, thinking it was just misplaced garbage. Sometimes the message would disappear after emptying and sometimes it would stay right there, requiring two or three attempts to get rid of it. Sometimes I had to select it specifically to delete it while the generic empty trash would fail to get rid of it.
I decided recently to double check those messages and found the messages were real saved messages that were both simultaneously in the trash and in the proper mailbox and not just old mail I had gotten rid of long ago. Trying to drag the message in the trash back to its proper folder wouldn't work as it wouldn't highlight the folder, preventing me from moving the message back. Oddly enough, right-clicking and selecting move does work and the message vanishes from the trash.
The distressing fact was that I found the messages in the trash weren't random garbage after all. If I were to empty the trash, the same message would also vanish from the original mailbox!?? I'd been deleting messages I wanted to save for months, not realizing I was getting rid of the real thing. Yes, it was careless of me not to check when the problem first started cropping up.
One odd thing I noted just recently was that while the duplicate trash messages can appear from any mailbox, the last several were all dated September 18, 2008 even though they had come from different mailboxes (note all mailboxes I save messages in are IMAP folders on MobileMe). Some of the messages that appeared mysteriously in the trash were even Apple RSS messages that Apple Mail tracks by default.
Has anybody seen this and does anyone have any idea how to stop this from happening? I've rebuilt my mailboxes any number of times and it doesn't seem to fix this problem.

I'm not sure how this message appears twice, but I definitely did not hit "post message" twice. It did take about five minutes before it posted, though.

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