Moving Email From Folder To Folder Causes Body Of Message To Disappear

OS X 10.5.8 - Mail Version 3.6 (936)
Not a consistent problem but insanely frustrating.
Example-
I move an email from the InBox to a Folder I have created under On My Mac (or within On My Mac), and it moves just fine. But (again seemingly randomly), if I Shift/Click two or more contiguous emails or Command/Click non-contiguous emails I randomly lose ALL the body of the email.
The From, Subject, Date and the Paper Clip icon display but nothing in the email. Double click to open the email in a separate window and unlike normal messages none of the normal format displays, (From, Date, CC, Attachments), double click just the Paper Clip and again nothing at all displays.
There is no Raw Source, Long Headers or Original Content.
Forwarding generates Long Headers and Raw Source but only from MY Forward not the original data.
Am I completely screwed as to the contents or are they recoverable? If yes then how?
Thank you,
Richard

It just stopped happening but I saved the posted solutions in case it crops up again.
Thanks,
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