Mail: Zombie Messages (Deleted Messages Won't Stay Deleted)

I'm a new user of Mail and have run into a perplexing problem. Certain messages in my IMAP mailboxe come back from the dead. My account is only accessed by my MacBook and iPhone 3G (iOS 4.2.1), and only the Mail on the MacBook is experiencing this problem.
Mail is configured to keep deleted items on the server.
Things I've tried:
o Reset the envelope index
o Delete and recreate the account
o Upgrade my IMAP server from Cyrus 2.3.16 to 2.4.6
o Disable caching of message content on my MacBook
I haven't found any pattern for the length of time it takes for messages to revive. With message caching disabled, it seems to happen upon a restart of Mail, but I haven't had enough experience with this setting to be sure this happens 100% of the time.
I've used Cyrus on my home server for almost 10 years now and have never experienced this issue with Thunderbird (or previously Mulberry).
Any suggestions of other things to try?
Thanks,
Justin

Are you saying that keeping deleted items on the server (although it is the default when you create an IMAP account) is just broken? One of the main benefits of IMAP is that my mail state is the same and completely accessible from all of my computers and devices. Storing anything only on one client device, including deleted items, breaks that model.
I'll run the experiment to see if storing deleted messages locally to my macbook fixes Mail.app, but even if it does, this behavior will push me back onto Thunderbird.
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