No messages in Local Sent folder

I have setup Mail to NOT store sent messages on the server. According to the help file when using an IMAP setup, as I am, I should be able to have a local copy on my computer of items that are sent:
To save sent messages for IMAP accounts:
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To store copies of messages you send on the mail server, choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, and select an account. Click Mailbox Behaviors and select “Store sent messages on the server.” _*If this option is not selected, sent messages are stored on your computer and you won’t be able to see them if you check your mail from another computer._*
Yet if I disable the save sent messages on the server I can find NO sent messages in any folder in Mail on the local computer. If I ENABLE save sent messages on the server a copy of all sent messages is correctly saved on the server.
Thunderbird correctly stores sent messages locally on my computer with the same exact IMAP settings and account, so I know that saving sent messages locally works with my IMAP configuration.
Obviously, I could do an automatic CC on all sent messages, and see if I can create a rule to automatically move those messages to my local sent folder, but that sure seems like using a sledge hammer to swat a fly approach.
Does Mail not really do what I want, or do I have something messed up?

I just enabled the "store messages on server" selection on my mac mail for the same issue. I wanted my sent items viewable on all computers as I had before. I think it must have changed during the "mobile me" switchover.
Now that I have made that selection, all my "sent" mail disappeared immediately, but I found it all further down in my Left Column folder area, in a section called " On My Mac" I found another sent messages folder. They all went there from my .mac account, when I selected "store a copy on server" . I have now sent off my first new message from my .mac account, and it shows up as the only "sent" message, on all computers with my account. All the other messages are in the other folder, described above.
Definitely something changed with the "mobileme" migration and it's not quite right. It's light starting over again.
But in my case the messages are there, just in a different location.

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