Mail updating attachments problem

Hi,
To make some more space in my mail box I recently deleted about 6months worth of attachments from emails from one of my inboxes. Now when I start up mail & click on the affected mailbox I get a message saying:
"Updating number of attachments for message 12 of 1936"
It never gets further than 12 no matter how long I leave it for, new mail still comes in ok & I can still send, other mailboxes are unaffected.
Any one got any ideas?? The only thing I've tried so far is a permissions repair but that has had no effect
Thanks
Zach

Thanks Zach.
All messages and message attachments should be stored in the mbox package file.
It appears some messages or a message with a large attachment is being incorrectly stored in the content_index package file since this file should not be 5.1MB in size.
Copy the old INBOX.mbox moved to the Desktop and place the copy in another location of your choosing such as your Documents folder for backup purposes.
Repeat Show Package Contents for the original INBOX.mbox on the Desktop and delete all package files except for the mbox file at 289.7MB in size and empty the Trash.
With the Mail.app quit and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail > Mailboxes.
Move the INBOX.mbox from the Desktop within and at the first level within the Mailboxes folder.
Launch Mail and this transferred mailbox will be available within the On My Mac folder in the mailboxes drawer or if you don't have a .Mac or IMAP account or no On My Mac folder, below Trash or Junk in the mailboxes drawer.
Select this mailbox in the mailboxes drawer and the Mail.app will take additional time to re-index the mailbox. If successful and when completed, all messages in the message list for this mailbox will appear as unread. To mark all messages as read, select a message in the message list and at the menu bar, go to Edit > Select All. At the menu bar, go to Message > Mark and select As Read.
Use the Rebuild Mailbox function on this mailbox for good measure.
If this resolves the problem and there are no missing messages, you can transfer all messages to the new Inbox mailbox for the account under "In" in the mailboxes drawer and then delete the old transferred mailbox or leave these messages in the existing location.

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