Repeatedly being asked for MobileMe password

Something's wrong with my keychain, and it's driving me bananas. Any help would be appreciated.
For instance, I keep getting asked to enter my MobileMe password in Mail. Even though I enter it correctly, it won't accept it. It keeps popping up the same password dialog. Mac OS then complains that "There was a problem saving to your keychain." When I go into my Keychain Access and perform a repair, it finds nothing wrong, of course. The only way to repair it seems to be to delete the entire login keychain, reboot, and then happily re-enter all my password information again. This seems to work for another week or so, until the same permission problem re-appears.
I have no idea where the culprit lies. I am syncing everything on my Macs using MobileMe, including the keychain itself, and I wonder whether it is somehow being corrupted.

Try verifying your keychain for errors.
Open the /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app
Then from the Application Menu choose keychain firstaid. Putin your username and password click on the Verify button.

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