Mail messages appear blank

All mail in arbitrary mail folders appear to have no message body (even though I know they do). I have tried deleting the Envelope files in my ~/Library/Mail folder, as I have seen suggested elsewhere, but (after importing) this does not fix the problem. It has, however, succeeded in quadruplicating each message!
Any other ideas?

I finally solved this by backing up my ~/Library/Mail directory, then removing it from ~/Library, as well as deleting everything in ~/Library/Preferences that began with com.apple.mail-. Then relaunching Mail, recreating all my accounts and slowly, slowly importing all the backups one-by-one.
I solved the duplication problems using Mail Scripts: http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
All in all, the process took about 5 hours for a combined 18,000 messages (not including all the duplicates).
Time I could have spent better! :/

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