Problems with "Read" mail becoming "Unread" again

Now that I have upgraded to Mountain Lion, I find my mail app acting odd. When I read an email, or when I select the entire contents of a folder and mark all the mail as "read", within a few minutes, random emails become "unread" again.
Anyone else experiencing this and have you come up with any fixes?
Thanks
Gary Cascio

Mail 2.x has always had these kind of problems with some IMAP servers. A few weeks before releasing the Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update, Apple made some changes to .Mac that caused these issues to happen there as well, and these forums were flooded with complaints from .Mac users about read messages being marked unread, and deleted messages being undeleted.
If this was a non-Mac IMAP account, I would say there is nothing you can do about it other than switching to another mail client. But in you case there has to be something else going on.
Try rebuilding the mailbox, i.e. select it and do Mailbox > Rebuild and see whether that makes a difference.

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