MAIL is hanging up on deleted email

[mrbarth]

I am using a G5 with Safari. I sent off a series of emails today using both iPhoto and just plain old "NEW" mail. The files that appear to be causing problems are related to one with an attached file that I had created (so doubtful that there was a virus or such attached to it). Besides emails that I sent out for my work I sent out a series of photos and one mpeg taken with my own SONY digital camera to my family in Oklahoma. The photos and regular emails sent fine as apparently did the additional email that contained the mpeg "LANTERN VIDEO" (Subject line of email). After it went off on its merry way, I opened my MAIL program again and started to cull out my SENT folder as I hadn't done so for some time. However, I suddenly found that MAIL was busy "indexing LANTERN VIDEO that had already been deleted from my SENT folder and was located in the trash. I now have my MAIL program hung up with this "INDEXING 68 of 408 LANTERN VIDEO" and to shut down MAIL I have to now force quit. Then when I open MAIL back up, all the emails that I sent out today re-appear in my DRAFTS folder and in individual windows on my desktop as well as appearing in the list of SENT emails. Also, LANTERN VIDEO reappeared three times each in the TRASH, DRAFTS, SENT and FAMILY folders. I have force quit three times already. I know that the regular emails actually left my computer as I have since received replies from those various emails so receiving emails is not a problem. However, I am still stuck in this "indexing" mode and now even when I delete anything that is coming in, it reappears in the IN box as well as in the Trash where I have tried to empty the trash each time before I have to force quit. What am I doing wrong, and how can I get rid of this LANTERN VIDEO that doesn't exist anymore in any of the folders so that it will not hang up indexing my folders? I have tried to "REBUILD" but that doesn't seem to work as it seems to get hung up at that darn LANTERN VIDEO thing again. Thanks.