Transferred mail doesn't display "most recent" messages in iOS3

I just setup a brand new Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server and began transferring mail from offline mailboxes to the IMAP structure on the server. This works fine in Apple Mail, as it displays the entire message list and keeps a local cache. However, this does not work properly on my iPad, iPhone or those same iDevices belonging to my colleagues.
Instead, it displays a seemingly "random" list of 200 messages rather than the "most recent" messages.
An extensive search of Apple Discussions yielded three very similar cases, all seeming to involve the transfer of mail from one server to another with similar results (errors).
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11656333&#11656333
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10850276#10850276
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11318599&#11318599
Has this been solved? Can someone offer me/us some help?
FTR:
I am running Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.4), the server is also up-to-date and the iPhones/iPads are as well (3.1.3 and 3.2 respectively).
Thank you,

the message just isn't seen as a multipart message.
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