Mail program has created a duplicate IMap mailbox I can't delete

Thanks in advance to everyone who answers this question.
Today I turned on Mail and discovered a new mailbox that has the same name (Fastmail) as a mailbox I created. It is using a gray round icon with the @ symbol on it. The account is an IMAP. I have using this configuration for about a year with no problem--until now.
This new mailbox has the following folders in it: RESTORE/brong/20071130T074641/Lists/Gaim
Inside Gaim is a junk mail from 2 weeks ago.
I have tried deleting the junk mail, but it reappears. I tried deleting each of the folders but am told I don't have permission:
+IMAP command "DELETE" failed.+
+The server error encountered was: Permission denied+
I checked mail permissions and all is well.
I used disk utility to repair permissions just in case and verified the disk while I was at it. All is well.
I went to the online home of the IMAP account. All seemed well, but who knows?
I did a spotlight search to find the folders and deleted them. They were residing in my User Library folder in Mail. All folders came back.
I did the above again, this time securing the trash. But--presto--the folders reappeared again.
I scrapped my mailbox accounts and set them up all over again. (I was feeling a little annoyed at this point.) This scrapping was a result of getting rid of the plist.
The mailbox reappeared. It feels a bit Hitchcockian.
Can someone tell me why the mailbox is there (so I don't get this problem again), and how to solve it now?
Thanks.

You mentioned that you went to the online home of your imap account and all seemed well.
Have you deleted the mail from the imap account - the same mail, I mean, as is on your desktop machine? With some imap accounts I've had to delete them "at the source online" before they'll delete off my desktop machine. The grey circle you describe is, for lack of a better term, the syncing process between online and your desktop account.
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