Remote images displayed in email

Hello! Despite the fact that I have "Display remote images in HTML messages" unchecked, about half the time Mail.app displays the image anyway. Has anyone else experienced this, and have you found a cure? I tried searching the forum, but the only hits I came up with were how to make Mail display remote images, not how to prevent it from doing so.
I've tried checking "Display remote images...", closing Mail, reopening Mail, and unchecking "Display remote images..." (thinking it would force a rewrite to the preferences file), but there was no change in behaviour. I also tried moving com.apple.mail.plist out of the way so that a new one was created, but that confused Mail so much that I couldn't open all my old emails so I moved it back. If there is an easy way to recreate com.apple.mail.plist and not lose access to my old emails, I'll try that....
Cheers!
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Declan,
I am seeing index files leftover from both Jaguar and Panther periods of use. These can often be problematic, and in this case might explain some random behaviors.
Because your mailboxes, or at least some of them, originated in Panther, and earlier, I want you to read the article at the link below:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301315
This issue of leftover files applies not only to mailboxes you have previously created (which are in the Mailboxes folder the article mentioned) but can also apply to those mailboxes in account folders created prior to the upgrade to Tiger.
Also, please check the size of any remaining mbox files in each folder. It is very important to compare the size of any file named "mbox" with that of the Messages folder. If the mbox is greater in size than the Messages folder, then it means that not all messages were converted to be in the Messages folder. This would likely be most important for any On My Mac mailboxes, as you must have been able to determine most message content was converted.
You should see several benefits from this cleanup.
Ernie

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