Manual set Pop Account Syncs Automatically

I have had 2 mail accounts set up on my iPhone 3g for about 10 months. One is an Exchange account that is set to push automatically and it works fine. The other is a pop account that I have set to only sync "Manually". This had also worked fine up until about a week ago (maybe a little longer). Now, when I open the Mail app, even though it opens into the Exchange account that I left it at last, it syncs the POP account. It used to only Sync the Pop account when I went into the Pop Account.
Has anyone else seen behaviour like this? I really don't want the POP account to sync unless I specifically go into it. I get thousands of spam messages every day so every time it tries to sync without me asking, it picks up as many as it will hold (currently set at 50 max).

Just to clarify - I obviously have not had my 3gs for 10 months. I had the original iPhone for 2 years and upgraded to the 3gs. I had this email setup since about December 2008.

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