Possible virus affecting mail?! help!

Hello. Today I started having some very concerning problems with my mail that do not occur when I send emails online via mobileme. In my mail account, when I forward something to one friend of mine, and when she responds, what shows up in my mail are emails that I received from other people in 2007 that were deleted ages ago. It looks as if my friend is responding to my prior forward, but the email that actually shows up in mail is an old one from someone else. It's happened three times now. Online, however, what shows up are the emails that my friend actually sends.
Does anyone else have this problem or has anyone else heard of any virus issues that could be causing problems like this?

It's unlikely to be a virus; to date there have been no confirmed reports of any virus that can infect Mac OS X.
My guess is that it's a corruption either in the mailboxes in Mail on your Mac or in your MobileMe account. I can't offer specific advice but perhaps someone else here will be able to offer a solution. It's also dimly possible that the problem is on your friend's end if this happens only with this one friend and not something amiss with your system or account, though since you say it doesn't happen if you forward emails via the MobileMe web interface (you are forwarding the same sorts of emails to the same friend, yes?).
EDIT: Templeton and VK offered a useful suggestion.
Regards.

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