Upon mail arriving, current message in preview pan is deselected

Since I have upgraded to Snow Leopard I have been experiencing an intermittent weird bug in the Mail.app.
When reading a message in the preview pane, if at that time there is an incoming message, the message I was reading gets deselected in Mail and the Inbox list gets refreshed. It is rather annoying because in some cases it takes 2-3 attempts to finish reading a message as it disappears from the preview due to other messages arriving.
Anyone experienced this?

Actually this not only happens upon new mail arriving. I cannot seem to find the real trigger for it. The sympthom is always that the currently active message gets deselected and the content from the preview pane disappears.

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