Mail showing more messages being received than are received

I have been having something odd happen lately. When I open Mail, it shows incoming messages, just a bit ago it was 12, but nothing appeared in my inbox. Occasionally I catch subjects in the status bar, but it is too quick to see. I also have an iPhone that I receive mail on, et even if I have read 1 or 2 messages on my phone, then open mail, it still pulls like 6. I do not have A spam filter turned on, I tried turning it on but nothing appeared and it seems like I get all my mail, but I am curious about this issue, is anyone else seeing it?

Hi all,
I finally solved my problem and felt like I should share my experience. The idea of changing the sorting/listing settings of Mail.app was indeed a good option. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve the issue on my iPhone or any other device/application accessing my data. Besides that, I didn't feel comfortable with this solution, since it didn't really fix my problem.
So here is what I did. I downloaded Mozilla's Thunderbird and set up my MobileMe account. After successfully retrieving all IMAP data I saved a copy of my complete IMAP folder structure locally. Afterwards I checked if I really had all messages and folders and deleted my data on MobileMe. Next step was uploading all my local messages/folders back to MobileMe again. I had about 3,5GB to transfer and it took me almost a night to finish this process.
After successfully transferring the data, I opened Mail.app and my all other devices/applications accessing that particular MobileMe account and had everything re-synchronized and Voilà Thunderbird transferred the messages with the received date correctly and Mail.app and other devices/applications displayed and sorted it accordingly. I deleted Thunderbird's email client and its associated files and folders, but I guess that application should be a keeper anyway.
So far I had the impression that this was all caused, because I transferred my local saved messages/folders to MobileMe through Microsoft Entourage. That application transmitted the date I transferred the message instead of using the message's header date settings.
I hope this helped.
Cheers!

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Doh!
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