Weird IMAP notification after 10.5.2 update

I updated my machines to 10.5.2 yesterday and I keep getting a weird notification box telling me something about my INBOX prefix not being present. My options are to "change" or "don't change" When I hit change, it re-synced my entire IMAP account (took about 2 hours).
After the sync finished, I noticed my folder structure looked different than on my laptop. So i dug around in account preferences and saw that Mail had added "INBOX" to my IMAP Path Prefix. Not knowing what it was, I deleted it (therefore matching my laptop). So Mail re-synced my whole IMAP account (another 2 hours). Sigh....
SO, now Mail continues to ask me to change my prefix at random times. What is this? Why is it happening?
Thanks-

Using INBOX as the path prefix is NOT the "correct way"; the correct way is server dependent. This is further complicated by the fact that servers that fully support the IMAP Namespace extension actually have more than one "path prefix".
On my company's server, we have the concept of shared mailboxes and the company relies extensively on them. If a user sets the path prefix to INBOX, he can no longer see the shared mailboxes, since that prefix limits him only to his personal mailbox hierarchy. So he must leave the prefix as blank in order to see the shared mailboxes.
Unfortunately, 10.5.2 has decided that a) it shouldn't honor the setting of "Keep Notes & ToDo's" to "On My Mac" and b) that it knows better than the user what the path prefix should be, and c) it doesn't have a "don't ever ask me again" on that annoying dialog.
I have already filed a bug report on this issue.

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