Mail not synchronizing properly with .Mac

Mail is having problems synchronizing with my .Mac account.
1. Doesn't see new mail
I can log in to my .Mac account and see new email in my Inbox.
When I click on the Get Mail button in Mail, the little circle thingy will spin next to my Inbox and then quit with the beep it makes when there's no new mail on the server. Sometime during the next 5-10 minutes, the new mail will be downloaded from the server to my Mail app but it will do so silently - in other words, I don't get the New Mail sound.
2. Unread message indicator doesn't clear right away
This isn't necessarily a problem with .Mac but it might be a symptom of the problem. I'll select a new message for reading and it displays in the message window. I'll select another new message for reading but the dot in the Unread column next to the new message does not clear. It usually clears the second time I go back to read it.
3.Duplicate messages in Inbox.
When I read and file a new message - in the trash or a folder - I'll get another copy downloaded to my inbox after a few minutes.
I hope someone can help with this because I really don't want to switch to Thunderbird.
Thanks.

Well, I've cleaned the caches and run all the tests, maintenance, and optimizations on my mac and that has not solved the problem.
Just out of curiosity, I tried synchronizing my .Mac mail with Thunderbird on a PC. I'm seeing the same symptoms as I did on my Mac with Mail: filed messages being reloaded from the server and messages not being marked as read.
I'm taking this problem over to the dotmac support forum.
Thanks again for your help Allan. At lest I now know that my Mac is in fine working order.

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