Rebuilding my Sent mailbox multiplies all messages!

Hi,
Since I was getting error messages while importing my mailboxes into the freshly installed Leopard mail program, from my Tiger backup, I thought I'd go back into the Tiger version and rebuild my mailboxes. I clicked "rebuild" on my 4000+ message Sent folder, after which all messages were duplicated! I clicked "rebuild" again, hoping this would solve the problem: now I have 17048 messages, four copies of every single one!
Very frustrating.
How can I solve the problems Leopard mail is having with my mailboxes?
And is there some way to reduce the number of messages in my Sent folder back to the actual amount? (Aside from selecting the messages individually and clicking "delete" a little over 12000 times)
Thanks very much for any suggestions!
Alexandra

Andreas Amann's (freeware) Mail scripts includes a 'Remove Duplicates in Mail'.
It works on Tiger and maybe Leopard.
INFO:
Locates all duplicate messages found in the selected mailbox(es) and move them to a separate mailbox for easy removal (duplicate matching is based on the unique message header "Message-Id")
Download the latest version of the scripts (4MB)
<http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html#Download>
Good luck,
Tom

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