Mail in mobileme box disappeared.

two weeks ago I found out that I lost mobileme mail in a period from October thru March. Tried to find out if it was maybe archived with a 'delete from mailbox' instruction. Could not trace it anywhere. Today same thing happens again: mobileme email vanishes. Now I have Time machine to help me out and recover the emails, but it is scary that something is driving to cleanup the mailbox without knowing what this is. The other mailbox from Comcast is untouched so I suspect it has to do with mobile me. I am using an IPodTouch to read mail as well, but infrequently.
Any idea what is going on?

Today this happened again: lost all the emails on MobileMe account. This time I am sure there was no interference with checking mail from the office or any other computer other than iPod Touch.
Switched on email. Opening an email it got stuck and after a minute everything in the mobilme inbox disappeared.
I use the iPod Touch to check email so now and then. Up until now no surprises.
Start to feel very uncomfortable that this can happen at random. Fortunately I back up on GTech external harddrive, but nevertheless. Any clue?
(I have posted this message wrongfully under Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, it should have been Mac OS X v10.5.7 Leopard. Do not know how to move this to the right forum.)

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