OS X Mail strangness

Not sure how to describe this problem, but I will give it a shot.
Lately when I recieve some emails, I can see the person the email is from, and what the title of the email is, but when I open the email, it contains a previous email (sometimes from months ago).
For example, I got a email from a coworker this morning and I see the title. However when I open the email it's an email that was an amazon.com order receipt from a couple of months ago.
This only occurs in mail. If I log into mobile me, I can see the email with no problems.
Any ideas? I have never seen an issue like this and have no idea how to fix it. I was thinking about deleting the mail app and all it's other stuff and reinstalling it, but would rather keep some of the mail I have (I do have back ups).
Thanks for any insight to solve this.

Your index is messed up. The Envelope Index is the file that has the pointers to the actual messages.
Quit Mail
Delete ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index (if you are scared move it to the desktop, but really this is okay)
Start Mail.
It will say something about importing messages... it is rebuilding that Index.
-fred

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