Why is Mail not stable?

My Mail is not working properly. Some messages are being deleted without me deleting them. Some peoples' emails are not showing up in the column on the left but show up on the right under other peoples' threads. My deleted messages are not showing up in the trash even though I clicked that choice in System Preferences. Somehow my wife's current email address was deleted in my address book and an old address several years out of date was inserted. My old address several years out of date showed up in my POP account in Mail System Preferences. Does that matter? I have the ICloud account. What should the settings in POP be?
Thank you
Carl

Try posting this in the 10.7 Mail forum. You'll get more help there.
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We purchased BIA (16GB blades) in 2006, implemented to our production in 2007 with Version 34.
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To sum up: BIA has the notion "It rocks when it works" in our company.
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