Mail sends pre-maturely BEFORE spell check completes!

Recently upgraded to 10.8.5 on an iMac and am experiencing premature SENDING when using the "check spelling when I hit Send" option in my mail account. I am using a gmail account.
If I move the curser into the body of the email to manually correct something, WHILE spellcheck is running, the email just FLIES out and gets sent prematurely! I do not hit "send," because the spell check is NOT FINISHED conducting its check. It sends prematurely.
This is a bizarre development. Since i have used the Mail program on this same imac for years,
Started seeing this regularly with the OS upgrade to 10.8.5.
I was told elsewhere to look for a ".plist" file in my Library. I have located NUMEROUS .plist files but I am not sure what to do with them.
Needless to say, far too many of my emails are being sent without proper editing! Problem is embarrassing!
Please HELP!   

From the Mail menu bar, select
Mail ▹ Preferences... ▹ Accounts
Select one of your IMAP accounts in the list on the left, then open the Mailbox Behaviors tab, Uncheck the box marked
Store draft messages on the server
Do the same in your other IMAP accounts. Save the changes when prompted.

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