Wow! Mail dissapears, stores in wrong folder, wrong titles, ...

I am getting a very strange behaviour in mail.app since my update to 10.5.4. Parts of emails are stored in the drafts folder without me asking. Some mails will open with a different text from the title or header. Some mail will seemingly be sent but does not appear in the Sent folder...
I've reintiated the prefs file, rebuilt all the mailboxes. To no effect, I'm still getting the same behaviour erratically, it is not permanent, it appears very suddenly, then for no reason dissapears again. Could it be a ... (wolves crying) ...virus!?!?
Please help.
Mark

Hello mark:
You can set aside a concern about a virus. There are NO documented viruses that affect a Mac running OS X - none.
If I were you, I would download the combo updater, install it, and see if that fixes the problem. Sometimes things go wrong with either the download or the update itself.
I do see that you trashed the preference file and rebuilt the mailboxes - two things that I would have suggested.
If the above does not help, I would opt for an archive and install.
Barry

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