Some emails in Mail 5 are brown / gold colour

Hey guys
Installed OS X Lion and migrated my emails into Mail 5, and i've noticed that some messages are like a gold / brown colour. I thought this might have something to do with being Junk, or marked as junk, but I have selected 'Not junk' but no change.
I don't know what it means? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Rik.

This is how to fix it for Apple Mail in Mac OS X 10.6, but should wirk the same in MAc OS X 10.7
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/10000.html

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