Seemingly random deletion of emails

I have an iPhone 3G and I have it to sync with my GMail account every 15 minutes. It seems that whenever I open mail on my MBP, I lose almost all my emails. It seems that only messages I've opened in GMail using Safari stay in my inbox. I can't even find the emails on GMail's website after they're removed, nor do they show up in the trash. They completely disappear. I just lost 14 emails, and some of them were very important messages from my college, because I had opened Mail to search for a specific message before checking them on my iPhone. The 14 messages did not show up in Mail on my MBP, and when I opened Mail on my iPhone I saw all 14 messages, then as it updated they all disappeared, along with all my read messages that I had not opened directly in GMail.
This has happened at least 3 times. I am not sure if it's directly connected to opening Mail in 10.5, but that seems to be the trend.
Any help would be much appreciated,
Isaac

Let me revise something. I've found about 1/4 of the messages in my "All Mail" folder under the "GMail" folder, but not all of them and none of the 14 unread messages.
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