Smart Folders are screwed for a start!

So, I had leopard beta (bag of nails) and Mail packed in.. So when Leopard went RC I bought it and upgraded, everything is sweet, mail came back to life and decided its indexes were a mess and sorted them.
I have 2 mailboxes:-
1 Exchange
1 Mac.com mail
2 things are happening, when I click on INBOX, I have always been able to see mail aggregated from both mailboxes, but I see nothing now.. (it is fine if I click on the individual mailboxes)
The second thing, Smart folders don't work, they display nothing... sometimes when I close mail and open it again, I can see the filtered mail for a split second before its gone!
Any Ideas?

McRoger wrote:
I guess it is a bug in Mail.app in Leopard and the two conditions have been inverted.
Are you sure?
I never used a Leopard Beta, just "Archive & Install" to upgrade from 10.4.10, and i cleaned out email so i'm using an entirely new setup.
When i create a smart mailbox with several rules, of which ANY should match, i get zero content. I also get zero content with it set to match ALL, which is likely correct.
If i give the smart mailbox only a single rule to match, presto, i get 100+ results! I did some further tests and for me ALL works correctly, but ANY is buggered!
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