Mail resynching folders

I find that Mail on Leopard constantly resynchs my imap folders loading the messages from scratch each time I restart mail.
This does not happen on Tiger.
I'm using an AltN MDaemon server running on a VMware ESX VM.
I have NO problems with Thunderbird on Leopard but each time I start Leopard Mail (at least 8 out of 10 times) the folders disappear and are reloaded and then it starts loading the messages again....
What a PITA this is!!!
I really don't know what is happening here.
Anyone?
THX!!!!

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