Sent or received mail appearing in Drafts

This is a weird one that started with me a while ago. I have started having emails appearing in Drafts. They are either email that I have sent or received. While it's in the Drafts folder it is also in my Inbox or Sent box.
As soon as I delete it from Drafts it disappears from my Inbox or Sent box as well so I am permanently deleting emails by doing this. Once I've deleted the email, the number 1 does not disappear to indicate that Drafts is empty as the next time I look in Drafts the next email is there.
I have tried to rebuild the mailbox but nothing happens.
Is this clear or should I try to explain in another way? I feel as if it's a bit of a muddled explanation.
What should I do? Anybody else come across this weirdness?

I finally sorted it - quite by accident. I have a Mobile Me account and an iPhone and I wanted to have all my sent messages appear in all places for convenience i.e. send an email from Mail and have it show up in my sent box on my iPhone in case I need to forward it while I'm on the road.
I clicked the 'Store sent messages on the server' option in preferences and Mail started acting strangely. Mail had created an extra Sent and Drafts mailbox under the On My Mac section of the side bar. For some reason it had split up my sent messages between the usual mailbox and the new one it had just created. I then moved all the sent messages from the new one back to the usual one. Once they'd copied (it took a few hours - there are a lot) I control clicked on the new mailbox to delete it.
Also with my Drafts mailbox, there was a weird email that shouldn't be in there but this one was in the new On My Mac mailbox. The usual Drafts mailbox up top under 'Mailboxes' was now empty. I immediately just deleted the new one that contained the weird email and expected it to appear in the other normal mailbox but it didn't. My Drafts mailbox is now free of any weirdness whatsoever.
Did that make any sense? Probably not. Anyway, that's how it happened!
Good luck!

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    I have tried to rebuild the mailbox but nothing happens.
    Is this clear or should I try to explain in another way? I feel as if it's a bit of a muddled explanation.
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